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jcolvin2 wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:40 pm
filly wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:34 pm Bryan is getting rough!
My grandmother's family is from Bryan. In my mind, it is a sleepy little East Texas town. Haven't been there in ages.
It’s not really in East Texas. Tonight they had baseball size hail in Bryan. Tomorrow maybe locusts?
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Just In: Sylmar High School is on lockdown after a report of a man with a rifle. School police say the man is thought to be in an apartment complex on the north side of the school.
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3 injured in 'active attack/shooter' incident in Northwest Austin, EMS says

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/20 ... =statesman
The incident was reported at 11:42 a.m. at the 9600 block of Great Hills Trail, officials said. Great Hills Plaza is near the location.

The three people who were injured are receiving CPR, medics said.

Austin police, medics and firefighters are responding to the call, EMS said.

People are urged to avoid the area.
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Active shooter reported in Arboretum area in NW Austin, 3 killed

https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/lo ... m=referral
Austin police are reporting to the scene of a reported active shooter incident in the 9600 block of Great Hills Trail in the Arboretum area in northwest Austin.

According to Austin-Travis County EMS, three patients were pronounced dead at the scene, which took place at the intersection of Great Hills Trail and Rain Creek Parkway.

Residents should avoid the area. Those in the vicinity are being asked to shelter in place. There are office buildings on one side of the Great Hills Trail and apartments on the other. KXAN is working to confirm a more specific location.
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Volkonski wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 1:30 pm Active shooter reported in Arboretum area in NW Austin, 3 killed
In other news:

This week, the Texas House of Representatives passed a bill dubbed “Constitutional Carry” that would allow citizens over the age of 21 to carry a gun without a license, drawing outrage from many state Democrats and gun-reform advocates.

Texas law currently requires citizens to obtain a license to carry in order to carry a firearm openly or concealed. If passed into law, the new bill would remove that restriction, allowing Texans to carry guns without having to pass a background check or go through training. Texas would become the 14th state to implement such a law.
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Have I got it righty that there are currently 13 States that allow “adults” to carry a gun, openly or concealed, with no checks or safety requirements?
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Yes, and Open Carry has already caused several deaths to my knowledge.

A man was spotted walking toward a college carrying a rifle. Someone called it in to 911, whereupon she was told "This is an open-carry State, and he has a Constitutional right to have that weapon in public!" Police were not called to question him.

Two people on the campus were killed that day, and a couple more wounded.
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roadscholar wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 2:35 pm Yes, and Open Carry has already caused several deaths to my knowledge...
I didn’t know that, not sure I’m surprised or not. :smoking:
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WATCH: Man aims gun at Rankin Co. drivers; arrested for disorderly conduct

RANKIN CO., Miss. (WLBT) - A bizarre video near the Reservoir in Rankin County shows a man repeatedly pointing a gun at drivers near the Spillway, before reholstering his weapon.

The Rankin County couple who shot the video Friday, April 10, claims the man used to live in the area of Church Road but is now homeless and in desperate need of mental help.

“He was pointing guns at cars!” John Bryant exclaimed.

“It was like he was in Gunsmoke,” John’s wife, Stephanie Bryant said, which is a 1970′s western TV show about preventing lawlessness.

The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department said they are aware of the incident.

Deputies said they responded to the incident Saturday, April 11, and arrested 43-year-old Richard Earl Brown for public intoxication and disorderly conduct.

But Stephanie Bryant claims Richard Earl Brown isn’t just pointing his weapon.
“Sometimes he shoots that gun!” she exclaimed.

Neighbors also claim Brown sometimes yells and curses at night which is why people in the area fear what could happen next.

“Other neighbors got their pistols out and said if he makes the wrong move, we’re taking him out,” John Bryant said. “Somebody has to do something,” Stephanie added.

The county says Brown lives on Church Road, but the couple claims Brown has no real home.

“We believe he’s living in an abandoned property with a shed near an empty, abandoned mobile home,” Stephanie said. “He used to be married to a relative of my husband and I know he has a sister, but Friday was too much and it’s just at the point where he has to go.”

The couple says Brown was so drunk when deputies arrested him that they had to wait until he became sober the next day to book him, but deputies have yet to confirm that.

We asked the county if Brown has a mental illness and if so, how they’re helping him. We also asked deputies if Brown is the registered gun owner and if the county’s arrested him before on similar charges.

“I just want him to get help before he hurts himself or someone else,” Stephanie Bryant said.
https://www.wlbt.com/2021/04/15/watch-m ... y-conduct/

Watch the video. The Sheriff's legal guy explains at about 1:00 into the video why they can't do anything except arrest him for drunk in public.
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Austin shooter-

Everything we know about manhunt suspect Stephen Nicholas Broderick

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/ ... ssion=true
Officials are searching for a suspect after three people were shot and killed in northwest Austin Sunday. Austin police are searching for Stephen Nicholas Broderick, 41, who they believe is “armed and dangerous.”

Two women and one man were found dead near Great Hills Trail and Rain Creek Parkway around 11:42 a.m., according to Austin-Travis County EMS. Police say it appears to be an isolated incident.

A $1,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to his arrest.

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Broderick is a former Travis County Sheriff’s Office detective. He was initially placed on leave in June 2020 after being charged with sexual assault of a child that month. That charge is a first-degree felony. His bond at the time was set at $100,000 and the Texas Rangers were investigating.
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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