[Breitbart] Shooter naturalized from Senegal. FBI looking at terrorism links per news conference on Fox just now. Koran in car, he was dressed in "Islamic garb"
At least three people were killed, and 17 were injured after shots rang out at a popular Sixth Street bar in the Texas capital city of Austin early Sunday morning. According to authorities, the shooter was killed by police officers who arrived at the establishment within a minute of the first emergency call.
During an early-morning press conference, Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz told reporters that 14 people were transported to area hospitals. Authorities have not provided an update on their condition.
The New York Post reported that the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force is on the scene and assisting in the investigation. Other reports show that police were on the scene in less than one minute.
Texas shooter Ndiaga Diagne, 53, of Senegal arrived in the US on March 13, 2000 on a B-2 tourist visa during the Democratic Clinton administration and became a lawful permanent resident (IR-6) when he married a US citizen in June 2006, a source familiar with his immigration history told The Post.
He then became a naturalized US citizen on April 5, 2013 around the start of former President Barack Obama’s second term — despite his growing rap sheet spanning New York and Texas.
Law enforcement knew him as an emotionally disturbed person in both New York and Texas before Sunday’s bloody rampage, sources said.
He also had a string of previous arrests under his belt in the Big Apple and Texas, sources said, including a 2022 arrest in the Lone Star State for collision with vehicle damage.
In New York City, he notched busts between 2001 and 2016, the year he applied for asylum under the waning Obama administration.
| He’d been a citizen for three years, and resident for sixteen — from what did he need asylum? |
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