Two People Dead, 23 Injured After Car Plows Through Crowd at SXSW
LatestTwo people are dead and at least 23 people are injured, after a car reportedly “gunned” it through a crowd of pedestrians at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told reporters the incident stemmed from an attempted DWI stop, according to KVUE.
[O]fficers initially tried to pull
over the driver at a gas station on the Interstate 35 service road. The
driver fled the wrong way down Ninth Street, which is a one-way street,
and turned onto Red River, hitting pedestrians at a “high rate of
speed.”
According to Austin police, a suspect is now in custody.