Six people are dead and another three were injured in a series of separate attacks in Texas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The suspect, who is in custody, is believed to be responsible for a string of shootings in Austin and connected to two deaths in a residence east of San Antonio, police said at a news conference<\/u><\/a> Tuesday night. He was charged with capital murder, while further charges against him are pending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities did not identify the suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe strongly believe one suspect is responsible for all of the incidents,\u201d said Robin Henderson, Austin interim police chief, adding that police \u201cdid not determine that these incidents were connected until the last incident occurred\u201d Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Henderson provided a timeline of the violent incidents, starting with the first shooting in Austin at about 10:45 a.m., when law enforcement responded to an Austin Independent School District police officer who was shot and injured in a parking lot at Northeast Early College High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just before noon, officers then responded to a second incident after receiving multiple calls for help at a home in Austin where gunshots were heard. One person was pronounced dead at the scene and the second person died later at the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Henderson said the third incident occurred just before 5 p.m., after a male cyclist was shot and sustained non-life threatening injuries in Austin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final incident occurred just before 7 p.m., when police responded to an ongoing burglary in Austin, which resulted in arresting the suspect after he opened fire on officers and fled in a vehicle. Officers discovered that two apparent victims of the suspect were left dead in the residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n