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2026 Austin bar shooting

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2026 Austin bar shooting
Diagne (circled) is shot by police
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Location30°16′12.4″N 97°44′59.1″W / 30.270111°N 97.749750°W / 30.270111; -97.749750
West Sixth Street, Austin, Texas, US
DateMarch 1, 2026 (2026-03-01)
c. 1:58 a.m. – 2:03 a.m. (CST; UTC−06:00)
TargetPeople at the bar and surrounding area
Attack type
Weapons
Deaths4 (including the perpetrator)
Injured15
PerpetratorNdiaga Diagne
DefendersAustin Police Department
MotiveUnder investigation (possibly terrorism)

On March 1, 2026, a mass shooting occurred along West Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas, United States, beginning when 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne opened fire with a pistol from a vehicle at people inside and outside Buford's Backyard Beer Garden. Diagne then parked, and used an AR-15–style rifle to shoot at people along West Sixth Street and its connecting roads before he was fatally shot by police. In total, four people were killed, including Diagne, and 15 others were injured.

The shooting is being investigated as a possible act of terrorism related to the attacks by the United States and Israel against Iran.

Background

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The West Sixth Street district is part of downtown Austin, and it is to the west of the larger Sixth Street district and it is bounded by Congress Avenue in the east and Mopac Expressway in the west. The area features a mix of restaurants, bars, shops, and music venues.[2][3] Buford's Backyard Beer Garden, where Ndiaga Diagne first opened fire, is frequented by college and university students, and was listed as one of the top 10 best bars in Austin for college students by the Austin American-Statesman in August 2025.[4]

Shooting

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At around 1:58 a.m., Diagne drove a black Cadillac SUV southbound on Rio Grande Street past Buford's Backyard Beer Garden, turned on the hazard lights of the vehicle and opened fire on people at a patio and in front of the bar with a semi-automatic pistol out the window of his vehicle.[5] Diagne then drove westbound on West Sixth Street, before parking in a parking lot on Wood Street where he shot a person with an AR-15–style rifle.[5][6][7][8][9] Austin Police Department (APD) officers and Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services personnel arrived on the scene within 57 seconds of the first 911 calls for help.[8][9]

Diagne then walked with the rifle back towards the bar, firing at people around the intersection of West Avenue and West Sixth Street. APD officers engaged with the shooter at about 2:03 a.m. at the intersection after being directed to the shooter by people in the area. Police officers shot Diagne multiple times as he opened fire at officers and continued to approach the bar. Diagne fell to the ground on the sidewalk at the intersection and was pronounced dead at the scene. Emergency medical technicians, who were nearby at the time of the shooting and are also embedded in police units during peak hours in Austin's entertainment district as part of a city program, provided medical aid to victims within 57 seconds of the beginning of the shooting,[10] and were later aided by the Austin Fire Department.[8][9]

Victims

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Four people were killed, including the shooter, and 15 others were injured, including two critically.[8][9] Those killed were identified as 19-year-old former Texas Tech University student Ryder Harrington, 30-year-old Minnesotan mixed martial arts fighter Jorge Pederson, and 21-year-old University of Texas at Austin student Savitha Shan.[7][11][12][13] Pederson was taken off life support a day after the shooting.[14]

According to Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services chief Rob Luckritz, critically injured victims were removed from the scene within 24 minutes, and all victims were removed from the scene within 47 minutes. Two of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene.[10]

Perpetrator

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Doorbell camera still of Diagne leaving his apartment shortly before the shooting

Police identified the shooter as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne (c. 1972-1973 – March 1, 2026), a Pflugerville, Texas, resident and a naturalized US citizen who had originally immigrated from Senegal.[15][16] Diagne also had an apartment at Eastridge Apartments in Austin in the Del Valle area.[17] Diagne previously lived in The Bronx, where he was arrested by the New York Police Department for illegal vending,[18] and in the northeast side of San Antonio for several years.[19] Diagne was wearing a sweatshirt that read "Property of Allah" with an undershirt of an Iranian flag and investigators located a Quran in his vehicle.[16][20][21] Diagne came to the United States on a tourist visa on March 13, 2000, received a green card in June 2006, and obtained US citizenship in 2013.[15][22]

Law enforcement and a Texas District Court judge said that Diagne had a history of mental health conditions and a history or pattern of committing domestic violence.[23] The judge told KXAS-TV that Diagne's ex-wife filed for divorce while residing in Bexar County in September 2022 after ten years and six months of marriage. She alleged in a petition that her husband was "guilty of cruel treatment towards Petitioner of a nature that renders living together insupportable".[24] Online records confirmed that Diagne had been both married and divorced twice. Diagne first married in The Bronx on December 30, 2005, but divorced in 2008. Diagne then married again in Manhattan in March 2012, but divorced again in September 2022.[25]

Law enforcement records show that Diagne had a criminal history dating back to his first arrest for illegal vending on June 29, 2001, in Manhattan.[25] On January 30, 2016, Diagne was accused of critically injuring a woman in Brooklyn after purposely running her over with a company car, which was owned by Hurricane Management Corporation, on Flatbush Avenue. That same year, Diagne moved to Texas.[14][26]

An X account which investigators believe to be connected to the shooter was created in October 2024 and last posted in December 2025. In the posts, Diagne expressed pro-Iranian, antisemitic, anti-Christian, and misogynistic views, but did not indicate Diagne's intent to commit an attack. In April 2024, amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran, Diagne replied to a post from Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in which Araghchi criticized President Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, writing "THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IS ETERNAL … you Zionist and islamophobes can be angry all you want but you can't do a damn thing about it no matter what [sic]". Other posts from Diagne included one in which he called Trump a "shameless clown" and another which described Netanyahu as "EVIL". In other posts, Diagne denigrated Christianity, calling the religion "fake" and using vulgar language against various foundational Christian leaders. Diagne also made several replies to far-right political activist Laura Loomer, which attacked her for her views. In October 2025, Diagne replied "Muslims worship THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD" to a post which said "Muslims and Christians don't worship the same God". Two months later, Diagne replied "SPERM and have built everything in this world" to a meme which said "Women produce babies. What do men produce?".[27]

Aftermath

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A Waymo driverless taxi blocked an ambulance from responding to the shooting by getting stuck blocking both lanes of traffic. The ambulance eventually backed out from the road, and afterwards the Waymo taxi pulled into a parking garage.[28] The company declined to offer a statement about the incident.[29] According to the White House, President Donald Trump had been briefed on the shooting.[7]

Texas governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Military Department to activate service members to protect communities and critical infrastructure from potential future attacks and directed the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and Texas National Guard to increase their patrols and surveillance activities. Abbott said that the mobilization was necessary to protect against any potential future attacks "as long as this war is going on".[30] Additionally, the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) and Bexar County Sheriff's Office announced that they were increasing patrols in high traffic areas across their jurisdiction as a precaution after the shooting, with the SAPD also citing "recent events in Iran" as a reason for the measures.[31] The Burleson County Sheriff's Office announced that they were increasing law enforcement presence at schools in response to the shooting, but said that there was not an active threat against schools, rather just a "proactive approach" to security.[32]

A reporter for KXAN-TV was allegedly caught on camera attempting to gain entry to Diagne's apartment in the Del Valle area of Austin after the shooting after asking his neighbor to send the station the footage from his doorbell camera of Diagne's apartment door. The neighbor reportedly called the apartment complex's front office to report the incident, believing the apartment was being broken into, before realizing that it was the journalist allegedly attempting to gain entry. KXAN-TV did not comment on the incident, saying that the station "does not comment on personnel issues", but the journalist's biography on their website was updated to say that she had left the station "in March 2026".[33]

The owners of Buford's Backyard Beer Garden announced that they would reopen on March 6, and donate all proceeds they earned from that day to March 9 to the victims and their families. The bar said it consulted its employees, with 40 out of 41 of them saying they were prepared to return to work. The bar also said it coordinated with local police to increase their presence near the intersection where the bar is located and that the roads outside would be closed to traffic from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. Additionally, the bar said it would install protective glass along the beer garden.[34]

On March 5, a 65-year-old former co-worker of Diagne sued Tesla for allegedly failing to provide a safe environment for employees at Gigafactory Texas and conducting thorough background checks. The woman alleges that Diagne, who she had never seen before, assaulted her during a company-allowed prayer break without provocation on December 4, 2025, and that Tesla withheld his name after the assault, preventing her from filing charges against him. An attorney representing the plaintiff said that the purpose of the lawsuit was to "determine what Tesla knew and why this early incident wasn’t taken seriously" and that "If Tesla had information about Diagne’s violent behavior before he attacked" the plaintiff "and failed to act, then not only might her assault have been prevented, it may have been an early warning sign of a far greater danger". The suit also demanded that Tesla preserve all evidence relating to the alleged assault. Tesla did not comment on the lawsuit.[35]

Investigation

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The shooting is being investigated as a possible act of terrorism related to the attacks by the United States and Israel against Iran.[36][37] Officials executed a search warrant at Ndiaga Diagne's house and found an Iranian flag and pictures of Iranian leaders.[15] Agents also searched Diagne's apartment in the Del Valle area of Austin.[17]

The FBI said that Diagne was not on their radar as a potential threat before the shooting, and a spokesperson for the FBI's San Antonio office said that the agency's "ultimate goal" was to "determine the motive".[38] The weapons Diagne used in the attack were legally purchased in San Antonio in 2017.[5][38] Texas governor Greg Abbott said that FBI agents were working in conjunction with the DPS to determine if Diagne acted alone or if he had connections to a terrorist group.[30]

Reactions

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National

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Texas senator Ted Cruz spoke about the shooting during an interview with Margaret Brennan on Fox News' Face the Nation and said that he and his wife, Heidi, were "praying for those who were wounded and the families of those who were killed".[39] Senator John Cornyn said that it was "a shock that something like this could happen in Austin, Texas, just literally blocks away from where I live" and that "the fact that somebody came to this country, was given a green card and became radicalized at some point, unfortunately, is a story we’ve heard before".[40]

Representatives Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett, who both represent parts of the city of Austin, both made calls for gun control legislation to be passed in the House of Representatives following the shooting. Casar said that he was "horrified and heartbroken" by the shooting and that "we must end America’s gun violence epidemic", and pledged to "redouble my efforts in Congress to prevent the next tragedy like this". Doggett said that he and his wife were "mourning and praying" for the victims and that gun violence was preventable and that "until Republicans find the courage to say no to the NRA, our country will be plagued with more tragedies".[41] Representative Chip Roy, who is running for the Republican nomination for Texas attorney general, posted unconfirmed details about the shooter's immigration to the United States and subsequent naturalization, writing that the shooter had been given residency during the presidency of George W. Bush "amid GOP celebration of the joys of ‘melting pot’ legal immigration" and called for the immediate pause of all immigration to the United States.[42]

State

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Texas governor Greg Abbott released a statement offering his condolences to the victims and said that he was in contact with Austin's mayor, Kirk Watson, and the director of the DPS, Freeman Martin, concerning the incident. Abbott pledged "full support of the State of Texas" in response to the shooting.[43]

The commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), Sid Miller, posted on X after the shooting thanking Abbott for his response and stating that "As Texans, we stand together, undivided and arm-in-arm against this radical ideology which spawns such hatred" and "we mourn the dead, tend the wounded, and pray for the families, even as we harden our resolve to see our state forever liberated from this evil". A day later, through the official TDA account on X, Miller released a statement that he had "received multiple threats to my personal safety" due to "my outspoken condemnation of the Islamification of Texas and the United States" and "my righteous anger over the horrific terror attack in Austin" and that he would not be "intimidated or silenced".[44]

Local

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Watson praised the response of police officers to the shooting, stating that he was "very thankful for the speed with which our officials responded to this" and that "I don’t think there’s any question: It saved lives". City council member Zohaib Qadri, whose district includes downtown, said that he was "deeply shaken and heartbroken" and was in contact with investigators.[30] Qadri, who is the first Muslim elected to the Austin City Council said that Muslim constituents reached out to him after the shooting fearing that they might become victims of Islamophobic violence after the shooting. Qadri also hosted a blood drive outside Austin City Hall after the shooting.[45]

Representative James Talarico, who was running for the Democratic nomination for Senate, argued with Abbott on X about the response to and cause of the shooting, with Abbott writing to Talarico, that "allowing unvetted immigrants who are hostile to America, who are loyal to our adversaries like Iran, must end" and wrote that it "was an act of terror, James" and went on to criticize Talarico's immigration policies. Talarico responded to Abbott, writing, "dangerous people should not be allowed into the country. Dangerous people should not be allowed to get guns. Texans understand this — you apparently don’t".[42]

Speculation and backlash about potential charges against the officers who shot the shooter began after an attorney for the Austin Police Association (APA) posted on social media that he would represent the officers in the Travis County District Attorney's office usual grand jury review process for officer-involved shootings. The president of APA, Michael Bullock, said that the officer's situation was "an extraordinary circumstance" and that the "officers have been through enough, and anything can happen in a grand jury".[46] Abbott released a statement on X in response to the speculation which said that "these police officers are heroes who saved lives" and that he would "have the final say in the fate of these police officers". The backlash prompted Travis County district attorney José Garza to respond to the claims that he intended to have the officers face a grand jury in a statement, which stated, "these officers are heroes, and it should go without saying that my office is not seeking any charges and would not seek charges" and that speculation about potential charges against the officers by his office were "intentionally false". Garza expressed his condolences to the victims and said that his office was "grateful for the bravery that these officers showed", and that his office was "disgusted by the leaders in Texas using their deaths to score political points".[47]

A makeshift memorial was created outside Buford's Backyard Beer Garden, with people leaving flowers, yellow ribbons, pictures of the murdered victims, and three crosses for the murdered victims.[48]

Organizations

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The Texas branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a statement condemning the shooting and "all acts of unjust violence anywhere in our country and around the world, regardless of the perpetrator or the motivation". In the statement, CAIR also said it would "reject any efforts to ascribe collective blame or punishment to entire communities or faiths based on the actions of individual criminals" and urged "communities must unite in compassion and resilience, standing together for justice, understanding, and peace".[49]

The president of the University of Texas at Austin, Jim Davis, issued a letter to students after the shooting confirming the death of student Savitha Shan in the attack and injuries to several of their students, which said that her death was "devastating" and urged students to "lift each other up" to "find light through this darkness that presently surrounds us". Davis also wrote that he had met with several of the families of students affected by the shooting.[50] On March 3, a vigil organized by Students Demand Action was held at Shan's school, the University of Texas at Austin, to honor the victims of the shooting.[51]

A day after the shooting, the Beta Theta Pi fraternity of Texas Tech University, where victim Ryder Harrington studied until fall 2025 and pledged to the fraternity in 2024, held a vigil for Harrington.[52] The school released a statement after Harrington's murder, stating that the school was "saddened to learn of the tragic incident in Austin that resulted in the loss of life" and that their "thoughts are with Ryder's family, friends, and all those affected by this devastating situation".[53]

See also

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