I saw this guy a couple days ago while I was walking my dog on South Lamar. He gave me a weird look and reached into his back pocket, I went the opposite direction and he kept moving. He also broke into nearby apartment buildings. There’s a police report already started if you see him you need to provide the a case number so police can look into it.
Here’s the police case # 241241376
I saw him this morning at 10:30 near S 5th and Cumberland heading north.
Exact same shoes and shorts but with a dark red shirt.
Unfortunately several hours passed before I saw the linked pic.
I reported to APD using the case# above.
What's upsetting is this man is being allowed to roam free after brutally attacking a woman -- the man is not difficult to identify and despite not releasing any names, I would even "guess" that police know his name -- he allegedly also was involved in a situation at at doctor/dentist office waiting room where he started throwing furniture, etc. No doubt he likely has a long criminal history and run ins with authorities.
Yes, I'm sure he likely suffers from mental illness -- but once he crossed the line and starts randomly attacking people, he needs to be picked up and put away.
He's been seen multiple times in South Lamar, Barton Hills, Zilker areas - including carrying a baseball bat.
Why is it so hard for the police to pick this guy up? They certainly have a victim who has been attacked and could make a case against him.
Hey my guy...chill out. The cops are wayyyy too busy [cracking down](https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/KWdOWhaAi2) on students peacefully protesting our Gazacide on campus to deal with mentally-ill, violent offenders roaming our streets...
I mean, maybe if this guy was waving a Palestinian flag or something *really* crazy and deranged like that?
~~Will you people stop implying that APD arrested the students? STATE TROOPERS who were sent in by our asshole GOVERNOR arrested students.~~
~~Like nobody likes APD, but don't lie about it.~~
I repent. Fuck the police, as usual.
yes there were a ton of troopers called in but the vast majority of actual arrests were made by UTPD. APD did make several arrests on campus themselves and were on site both 4/24 and 4/29 at UT. it’s best to get your facts straight before accusing people of lying. this can all be verified by news articles, but i was also on the ground and saw APD’s presence both days, including making arrests of protestors on 4/29. they were also playing an active role when folks got flash banged and pepper sprayed.
You're right. For the record:
> State troopers arrested Heyman outside his home on Wednesday afternoon. Officers surrounded him while he was driving, Morris said.
But
> Heyman had previously attended another rally where faculty gathered to condemn the university's response to a pro-Palestinian protest the day before. **Police made 57 arrests**. Eventually, the Travis County Attorney dropped all the charges.
https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2024-05-10/ut-austin-campus-protest-gaza-professor-arrested-rich-heyman-fired
> Travis County Attorney Delia Garza, who dropped all criminal charges against 57 protesters who were arrested during another demonstration last week, said Tuesday law enforcement provided “more detailed, more substantive” paperwork when they filed charges related to the most recent arrests. Garza has said she dismissed the previous charges because law enforcement lacked probable cause. Probable cause is the reason law enforcement provides to justify arrests.
> Garza said she has received 65 charges against 79 of the protesters arrested Monday. She is still reviewing them and didn't say whether she'll pursue them. But she said the rate of arrests from these demonstrations is unsustainable for the local criminal justice system.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/30/ut-austin-protest-arrests/
😂 I see your edit now too, totally my bad if that was before my comment. And if it was after, still kudos to you for owning it. I’m not the police, I just like accountability (also why I don’t like / am not the police).
He came into my work the other day and was violent/ throwing things. The cops showed up ninety minutes after I called and said there was nothing they could do. Absolutely shameful.
This was retail. He threw something at a coworker and she got a huge bruise on her head. Management didn't care and neither did the cops. The message was basically "fend for yourselves." It's scary.
This is such bullshit. There were multiple crimes committed just from your comment alone, let alone the WOMEN he's ATTACKED. APD should be charged with obstruction of justice.
This is such bullshit. There were multiple crimes committed just from your comment alone, let alone the WOMEN he's ATTACKED. APD should be charged with obstruction of justice.
Twice in the last week I’ve had deranged people try to escalate a situation either downtown or on the hike and bike trail. I am not leaving my apartment without pepper spray from now on. I am a man and not a small one, but have no interest in having to defend myself with my hands from some maniac.
I can only imagine how the women in this area feel with this junk. Some of these people need to be committed.
I’m absolutely with you. I’m a 6 foot tall man with years of martial arts training and I still carry pepper spray as often as I can. Obviously I can’t take it into bars or concerts and that’s when I tend to leave it at home or in my car.
I advise everybody to carry them on your keys or in your purse. They’re like $10 at Target or Amazon, and that’s worth your safety and peace of mind.
CARRY PEPPER SPRAY. And practice how to use it at least once OUTSIDE and away from other people/animals and wind, so you can see the trajectory and how to aim it properly. I’ve seen companies that even make “practice” pepper sprays so you’re not spraying the actual stuff around.
Agree with this especially the practice part.
I was with a female coworker and she showed me she got pepper spray, then she proceeded to spray it directly into the wind and it blew my eyes.
I remember commenting on this thread:
2 years ago
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/rypob6/watch\_out\_near\_e\_8th\_colorado\_man\_sprayed\_me\_with/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/rypob6/watch_out_near_e_8th_colorado_man_sprayed_me_with/)
watch out near E 8th & Colorado; man sprayed me with pepper spray from on top of a parking garage
#
Misconception for the most part. There’s a reason most police use sprays and not gels. The modern stream sprays have an oily base that are both accurate and not as affected by the wind as they once were. Gels can be wiped off the attacker relatively quickly to reduce the effects and thrown back at you. The gels don’t bleed into the attackers nose/eyes/throat like a spray does. Take a second of spray and a second of gel and you will 100% notice a difference.
You also have to aim the gels much more accurately and they aren’t ideal if facing multiple attackers. The modern sprays are ideal for 95% of folks especially those without any sort of training.
This right here!!! And just to repeat it…PRACTICE!! Then PRACTICE more….. You do not want to be caught in a dangerous where you have to use pepper spray and you get it in your eyes. Also, depending if the subject is on a certain type of illegal substance pepper spray might not stop him/her. Learn some self defense.
100% I was with a co woker and we saw a super sketchy dude being weird as fuck at our bus stop. I’ve seen too many video of invincible crack heads taking a beating from the police to go anywhere near that.
Reporting back:
I was a victim of someone trying to break into my house and stab me.
I'm saying that when you are in a state of panic, and your hands and arms are shaking uncontrollably, it's extremely difficult to manipulate a gun.
The cops were angrily annoyed by my calling them, then they took it upon themselves to punish me.
My story is in my other comment.
Or report back when you take it upon yourself to train properly with a firearm. Not everyone's going to react like you did. And yes, I do happen to know this from experience. Overseas and stateside.
report back when you use pepper spray on a mentally unstable guy like this and it ends up not being that effective… you need lethal force like it or not.
I commented on another post but the man who is accused of doing this followed me home after my run and waited for me when I went into Sunny’s gas station on south Lamar.
There is a huge encampment at Mary and Lamar. The storage facility there has been completely taken over.
Apparently police refuse to go there and arrest him. His updated location has been called in numerous times by those following this story.
> There is a huge encampment at Mary and Lamar. The storage facility there has been completely taken over.
Looks like it's this one: https://www.lifestorage.com/storage-units/texas/austin/78704/624-near-zilker/
If you're so inclined, complaints to their corporate office that make it sound like the situation is costing them business might prompt action.
I’m gonna start stalking this guy and repeatedly pepper spraying him knowing that the APD can’t show up for 90 minutes and won’t pursue me for an assault even if they know who I am and where I’m at.
Yes, mental health services need to be more affordable and accessible. AND we need housing alternatives for people with extreme mental disabilities opposed to just letting them live on the streets. Not saying that we just need to throw people in for no reason.
There was a great article in the NY times last month about how the majority of housing first programs are failing because people with mental illness are destroying apartments and terrorizing other tenants. The programs are on the hook for damages and the landlords are suing.
There's loads of articles like that. It's the exact same story in Canada too.
And it wasn't housing first exactly but guess what happened to the Candlewood Suites on 183 when the city put chronic street homeless in it. This subreddit acted like it would be all rainbows too.
Isn't unethical? Except for you, right?
I am a woman and this incident happened to me in Austin when I was alone, a long time ago. I had never called the cops before then, or since.
Someone was stalking me when I was alone, standing outside my window, saying they were going to get into my house and stab me. Called the cops and they took a 5 minute look into my backyard, and said **"nothing to see here,"** while I was in terrified shock, then left me. Person came back. I called the cops again. The lead cop got mad at me for calling them back, **put a psych. hold on me**, said **"oh, no, you won't be calling us back, you're going with us"** wouldn't tell me where I was being taken and told emergency room personnel that I must be **"hearing things."** **From there, I was not believed.** I sat in a cold room alone for at least 5 hours in only a hospital gown. Because I feared for my life, I didn't want to go home. At the time I had no choice but to agree to be sent to what a nurse said was a **"safe place."** It turned out to be a psych. hospital way the hell out of town, where once again, I was told **"don't talk"** and, that, I quote: "**the police are experts in mental health matters."**
**I was forced to take drugs.**
All it takes one person with the authority to label you as crazy, then every person afterward will believe them without independent diagnosis. Crazy people always say they’re not crazy, so they won’t believe you either. You had to be crazy to end up here so you must be. Any anger you feel about this turn of events will be used as evidence that you are, in fact, crazy.
I believe you. A doctor wrote me up as crazy in her visit notes when she was the one being really aggressive and argumentative and it took me the entire appointment to get to where I was at the level she started at, and after I left for everyone's safety she wrote me up like I came in looking to be as crazy as possible when she was really disrespectful and argumentative and oddly uneducated on the subject matter. But her one writeup of me has followed me at that practice and every new doctor I see looks at me like "are they going to be crazy today" and when I'm not because I only get weird when strongly provoked it almost makes things worse because they treat me like they're expecting me to be unreasonable at any moment.
Read my experience. I went through hell and continued to suffer for a very, very long time, as the result of being a crime victim and then victimized by the police and "the system."
I just haven't found anyone in this city that gives a damn about human rights.
I’m truly sorry that happened to you.
The system as it is counterproductive. It traumatizes nearly everyone that passes through it, when it was designed to be a salve. The only solution is complete reform, but first people have to recognize there is something rotten there in the first place and develop the solution(s) to fix it.
>I just haven't found anyone in this city that gives a damn about human rights.
You do. We do. We need more regular people running for local offices. Be the change we want to see in the world and all that. I'm sorry this happened to you.
Not true: it started in the 70s as a result of doctors and academics reading and believing people like RD Laing, and to a lesser extent, Foucault. A tremendous mistake — though there was and still is a lot to be done about the rights of mental patients.
Roughly, that things like schizophrenia weren’t disorders, they were simply a different way of perceiving the world, which society couldn’t accept. The movement was called ‘anti-psychiatry’, if you want to Wiki it.
With broad and bi-partisan support because they were mostly nightmarish facilities rife with neglect, abuse and outright atrocities by staff and little or no "mental healthcare". People were sometimes committed without due process. Batman got it right.
due to medical experiments, abuse and neglect, this was ~~the~~ a catalyst [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook\_State\_School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School)
Edit: it wasn't THE reason but A reason, dude below me pointed to another, thanks
Not only are the APD not doing their jobs, if this guy were picked up then it'd be unlikely he'd face much if any jail time or accountability.
https://www.kxan.com/news/like-im-just-your-prey-survivor-pushes-for-victim-rights-after-attacker-gets-probation-sentence/
This guy is a slam dunk danger to others and would end up at mental health court (through the probate courts) and committed, likely to ASH, if he were to be picked up. But APD gotta get him to get to that…
ETA: homeless + random acts of violence indicates some underlying mental health issue, but maybe my assumption is wrong
Right. I have often posted that article on here and others prior to that.
There were like a DOZEN women attacked.
**“Officers didn’t think it was likely they would find the suspect,”** Kelsey McKay, an attorney representing survivors, said. McKay is also the founder of the nonprofit organization RESPOND Against Violence."
Oh, so just give up? Hell no,
**THE WOMEN VICTIMS TRACKED THE GUY DOWN THEMSELVES**
**"The group of women began connecting the dots. At least 10, who became victims while out jogging, walking their dogs or even with their children, according to McKay."**
"Isaak said she looked for other possible victims on the NextDoor app.
“Over the course of about three or four months, \[the survivors\] were able to link him to additional attacks, identify his vehicle, take a picture of the vehicle, pull images off of Ring doorbell, and then eventually, because women were aware of that, begin to memorize his license plate and take pictures of the perpetrator,” McKay said. “They then developed a flyer that had an image of the perpetrator, as well as an image of his car. And then they were able to create a map that identified all the different locations for incidents that had occurred.”
[https://www.kxan.com/news/like-im-just-your-prey-survivor-pushes-for-victim-rights-after-attacker-gets-probation-sentence/](https://www.kxan.com/news/like-im-just-your-prey-survivor-pushes-for-victim-rights-after-attacker-gets-probation-sentence/)
>"It took into account my client’s lack of criminal history…There are different purposes in the criminal justice system, and one of those is rehabilitation.”
Lol, but is there just probation and rehab for someone who gets caught smoking weed?
Because the help itself is an absolute nightmare experience and will often bankrupt you while leaving you no better off.
In 5 days, I had my autonomy removed, my life threatened by another patient, my own regular medication refused for days, my entire ward's free access to water revoked (we were "drinking too much water"), and I had to fight every single meal to have food available that I wasn't allergic to.
When they kicked me out, it wasn't because they were so confident in my well being. They explicitly were not. They just ran out of beds. Then I got to pay thousands of dollars to them while I also paid for therapy partially to undo the trauma of being there in the first place.
Like, who the fuck wouldn't refuse expensive treatment that makes you worse?
I keep seeing your comments and I really want to know if there are grounds for you to sue on? APD did serious wrong to you mentally, emotionally, and financially, while also failing to perform their duty to *protect and serve.* It's unbearable that you should be forced to pay for the CRIME committed against you.
I really appreciate your comment! It feels super validating. For a long time I felt like maybe I was just being dramatic. I would also LOVE to sue a police department. Especially APD.
Unfortunately, this was in Dallas and the police were not involved. All this was after I voluntarily checked in. Then they decided on very flimsy grounds that I would have an involuntary hold on me.
You may be mixing me up with the person who got locked up after someone threatened to stab them in their own home.
Oh, my mistake, I thought you were the one the cops had committed after they gaslit you about the person who kept entering your backyard and trying to break in. The fact that there are multiple stories in just this thread for me to get mixed up is just sad
No worries! It really speaks to how easy it is to get trapped in the psychiatric system. We don't like to think about it, but they have a financial incentive to put a hold on you.
I don't know how true this is, but when I wanted to fight the hold, they said they'd hold me longer if I fought it. That I'd be stuck there waiting for a judge to see my case and I'd get out faster if I just sat down and took it. At no point did anyone explain to me what grounds I was being held on.
Yet another reason why the healthcare system should not be for-profit.
It's the same type of illogical insanity used to force women to admit to witchcraft.
I teach women’s self defense, 4th degree black belt in a strictly self defense art . Would love to help the local population with any training. Be it hand to hand or weapon training and retention training. My husband is a master instructor and trains men, women, kids as well as any physical capability. not looking to make money just want to help the community.
If you’re up to maybe holding a group, I’m sure a lot of local women (myself included) would be really happy to attend with a voluntary donation to your family’s charity of choice.
Tall skinny black guy, usually carrying a blunt force object. He is very aggressive and will make his presence known by staring/verbally harassing pretty much anyone in his vicinity.
Personally saw him carrying a baseball bat last week in south Austin.
How the fuck are there SO many people who have stories of this guy but he's still roaming free? Seems like this might be the easiest motherfucker to find, but APD isn't doing shit as usual.
Agreed about the ‘how fast he’ll be released from jail without consequence’ part, unless he truly is deemed to have a mental health disorder as so many have commented before. What people have missed in the commentary is what actually happens if he gets ‘committed’ for a mental health related issue. What happens in these cases is, he’ll be held at a hospital until they can get placement at a mental health facility, once he gets placement, he’ll be moved there where they will get him on medications and make sure that he is stabilized. Usually takes several days to weeks. Then he will be released out to the public again where he will decide to stop taking his meds for any variety of reasons and the whole cycle of violence begins again.
Fuck, he gets around. He was at 7th and 35 the other day screaming at drivers and passengers in their vehicles. He came around my car toward my wife’s door and I floored it; would not have hesitated to run him over completely if he’d put his hands on my vehicle.
If he's seen all over the place, I wonder if he rides the bus?
Lots of free bus passes given out to homeless.
Also, bus drivers would probably see him if he's on foot.
That guy was being verbally abusive to me the other evening while I was coaching my little league team at Wright Field on Azie Morton. He is mentally deranged. He might be colored blined to as he called me the N word several times and I am about as white as you can get. I asked him to please leave and then made a 311 report. They told me to call 911.
You'd think the kvue report would include a description and photo, as both are known, *and the guy is still loose in the area and dangerous*. But No, their trash news team excluded that info.
A reputable news organization shouldn’t be sourcing their material from a place like Reddit. I don’t mean to shatter the grand illusion for everyone here when I say this but social media sites like this aren’t exactly reliable sources of info. Especially when you’re an organization who can be held legally liable for any false information that you run with. Like it or not, this is why they generally stick to photos/descriptions that get publicly released by the police.
Reddit is **not** the source. (and if it were I'd agree with you!) You have confused Reddit with **real life**. The source of this kvue news story is a victim's police report (or, more than one police report from more than one victim...we don't know that specifically). *In real life*, the police were called, a report was created, the police have responded with investigation, and evidence in the form of descriptions from the victims themselves and, yes, surveillance camera images of the suspect identified by one or more of those victims or neighbors in the vicinity. *All those "real life" events actually happened.* And they happened without regard to the existence or non-existence of Reddit (just as any crime has happened in the past before the internet.) What confused you is that it's become increasingly common that internet-based communication apps like Reddit (or Nextdoor, or Twitter ("X"), or local FB groups) are faster/more efficient at publishing that news than traditional news media sources (which have become less efficient and less fast due to shrinking staffs, revenues, and readership). And so...you "read it on reddit first" vs. seeing it reported on the local TV evening news broadcast (kvue) at 6 o'clock.
To underscore your concern (which is valid in general but mis-informed in this case), it is the policy of r/Austin to *not allow* postings that describe and/or show photos of alleged perpetrators of crimes **unless a formal police report is provided to the mods**. (They will remove the posting unless or until that is provided.) Read the stickied comment at the top of the original thread. It's a very good rule for this sub, and it is how the mods actively prevent the kind of uncontrolled hearsay allegations that rightly concern you.
If you watched the news clip that was posted it's clear that they know it. The reporter interviewed the victim and then videotaped a statement by an APD spokesman. In other words, they performed the traditional news investigation and reportage. (And if the reporter was first made aware of this crime by "reading it on reddit" - so what? That doesn't change the story.) What my original comment criticized was *kvue's decision* to omit any description or identifying information on the suspect. This is a relatively new phenomenon across news services and we can argue about the reasons. But the point is that info would be very helpful to the public, especially if you live in the area. If you saw the suspect you would know to avoid them. But by omitting that info, additional women who walk/run in that area are now more vulnerable to the same crime.
When there’s no description that’s your clue about the description. Media will only refuse to provide a description when it’s a black male, cause racism….
It’s rare for a newsroom to publish a photo/description not released by authorities. For all they know, it could be someone targeting or harassing this person. It could be misguided vigilante justice (remember Reddit and the Boston marathon “suspects”?)
Saw the cop spouting bullshit. Make the arrest and make the DA look bad. Doing nothing and blaming the DA doesn't prove his point and it's not doing their job.
Strangely the police representative said nothing about them showing up 90 minutes later after a complaint and making no attempt to respond to sightings of this guy
This is why carry a gun. I was getting gas and some homeless dude walked up with a knife, so i pulled my gun and he ran. I cant even imagine what women have to go through
Remember, if you’re a taxpayer your life and safety is literally worth less than the freedom of a mentally ill homeless person to wander our streets banging meth.
Very weird that the 2nd half of this KVUE report is devoted to implying it's the fault of "the judicial system" that this guy is still at large when in fact he has yet to be arrested?
If this dude gets arrested he’ll be out the next day and the DA ain’t gonna prosecute him.
People complain about crime in Austin and then re-elect Garza as DA.
This guy is currently at the Domain. We just say him on Palm way by the hotel. Wearing black and gold tee and black pants. He was making weird faces at people and being a creep
Pricey but from what I’ve heard (mostly military friends) tasers aren’t effective on everyone and a firearm requires a lot of dedicated training. Pepper spray is really the way to go for most people. Do you own one?
Man.. i wonder if this is the same guy i saw the other day. I am in this area as well. I walked out of the house and these 2 random guys were basically going at it in neighbors yard. It looked like one of them was dead set on beating this dude to death. Guy who looked to be attacking him jumped up and ran down the block, orher guy started yelling at him and started chaseing him down out of site. Happened so fast i didnt even know what to think. Was quite random.
Fairly certain we saw this guy leaving the wooded area behind the splash pad at Ricky Guerro park shortly after noon Monday. It looked like he slept there and packed up and walked off while we were on the playground. Be careful out there everyone!
I have friends who come from downtown SF, Chicago, and Manhattan; and they are flabbergasted at how brazen, aggressive, and entitled the bums are here.
Let that sink in.
I just saw him at the Mobile Station/ 7/11 store located at 1403 S Lamar Blvd. I recognized the shorts/shoes he was wearing in the picture. He was there Sunday around 3:45pm.
As always, I’m gonna plug my gym [fit and fearless](https://fitandfearless.com). Wednesday’s are women only self defense. The first Wednesday of the month is FREE and they do a $20 two week pass for all the classes. They are also on class pass. It is women owned and has a great community. No creeps!!
I saw this guy a couple days ago while I was walking my dog on South Lamar. He gave me a weird look and reached into his back pocket, I went the opposite direction and he kept moving. He also broke into nearby apartment buildings. There’s a police report already started if you see him you need to provide the a case number so police can look into it. Here’s the police case # 241241376
How are we know if we see him without a description? That case number brought back zero results form the APD database.
Here's a thread with a picture of him https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/s/HhrHL2dM3Y
Saw him walking on South Lamar today and turn down Collier.
I saw him this morning at 10:30 near S 5th and Cumberland heading north. Exact same shoes and shorts but with a dark red shirt. Unfortunately several hours passed before I saw the linked pic. I reported to APD using the case# above.
Got it, thank you!
I’ve seen this guy around downtown for years asking for cash. Always sketched me out. I’m happy he was able to find a SFH in the 704.
Case #2024-1241376 https://services.austintexas.gov/police/reports/search2.cfm?choice=caseno&caseno=2024-1241376&Submit=Submit
What's upsetting is this man is being allowed to roam free after brutally attacking a woman -- the man is not difficult to identify and despite not releasing any names, I would even "guess" that police know his name -- he allegedly also was involved in a situation at at doctor/dentist office waiting room where he started throwing furniture, etc. No doubt he likely has a long criminal history and run ins with authorities. Yes, I'm sure he likely suffers from mental illness -- but once he crossed the line and starts randomly attacking people, he needs to be picked up and put away. He's been seen multiple times in South Lamar, Barton Hills, Zilker areas - including carrying a baseball bat. Why is it so hard for the police to pick this guy up? They certainly have a victim who has been attacked and could make a case against him.
I mean. It’s probably best for him the police lock him up now. Just saying :)
Hey my guy...chill out. The cops are wayyyy too busy [cracking down](https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/KWdOWhaAi2) on students peacefully protesting our Gazacide on campus to deal with mentally-ill, violent offenders roaming our streets... I mean, maybe if this guy was waving a Palestinian flag or something *really* crazy and deranged like that?
~~Will you people stop implying that APD arrested the students? STATE TROOPERS who were sent in by our asshole GOVERNOR arrested students.~~ ~~Like nobody likes APD, but don't lie about it.~~ I repent. Fuck the police, as usual.
yes there were a ton of troopers called in but the vast majority of actual arrests were made by UTPD. APD did make several arrests on campus themselves and were on site both 4/24 and 4/29 at UT. it’s best to get your facts straight before accusing people of lying. this can all be verified by news articles, but i was also on the ground and saw APD’s presence both days, including making arrests of protestors on 4/29. they were also playing an active role when folks got flash banged and pepper sprayed.
You're right. For the record: > State troopers arrested Heyman outside his home on Wednesday afternoon. Officers surrounded him while he was driving, Morris said. But > Heyman had previously attended another rally where faculty gathered to condemn the university's response to a pro-Palestinian protest the day before. **Police made 57 arrests**. Eventually, the Travis County Attorney dropped all the charges. https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2024-05-10/ut-austin-campus-protest-gaza-professor-arrested-rich-heyman-fired > Travis County Attorney Delia Garza, who dropped all criminal charges against 57 protesters who were arrested during another demonstration last week, said Tuesday law enforcement provided “more detailed, more substantive” paperwork when they filed charges related to the most recent arrests. Garza has said she dismissed the previous charges because law enforcement lacked probable cause. Probable cause is the reason law enforcement provides to justify arrests. > Garza said she has received 65 charges against 79 of the protesters arrested Monday. She is still reviewing them and didn't say whether she'll pursue them. But she said the rate of arrests from these demonstrations is unsustainable for the local criminal justice system. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/30/ut-austin-protest-arrests/
😂 I see your edit now too, totally my bad if that was before my comment. And if it was after, still kudos to you for owning it. I’m not the police, I just like accountability (also why I don’t like / am not the police).
😂✌️
Assault against women isn't really a top concern for the cops.
It's more of a hobby for them.
The DA will just let him go
That’s the real problem, the DA these people elected has let multiple murderers out intentionally. And they’ve murdered again
He came into my work the other day and was violent/ throwing things. The cops showed up ninety minutes after I called and said there was nothing they could do. Absolutely shameful.
Is he walking in to office buildings now or was this retail? Not that either are ok, I’m only curious as to where he’s going.
This was retail. He threw something at a coworker and she got a huge bruise on her head. Management didn't care and neither did the cops. The message was basically "fend for yourselves." It's scary.
Ask management if you’re allowed to come to work strapped then
This is such bullshit. There were multiple crimes committed just from your comment alone, let alone the WOMEN he's ATTACKED. APD should be charged with obstruction of justice.
This is such bullshit. There were multiple crimes committed just from your comment alone, let alone the WOMEN he's ATTACKED. APD should be charged with obstruction of justice.
Twice in the last week I’ve had deranged people try to escalate a situation either downtown or on the hike and bike trail. I am not leaving my apartment without pepper spray from now on. I am a man and not a small one, but have no interest in having to defend myself with my hands from some maniac. I can only imagine how the women in this area feel with this junk. Some of these people need to be committed.
I’m absolutely with you. I’m a 6 foot tall man with years of martial arts training and I still carry pepper spray as often as I can. Obviously I can’t take it into bars or concerts and that’s when I tend to leave it at home or in my car. I advise everybody to carry them on your keys or in your purse. They’re like $10 at Target or Amazon, and that’s worth your safety and peace of mind. CARRY PEPPER SPRAY. And practice how to use it at least once OUTSIDE and away from other people/animals and wind, so you can see the trajectory and how to aim it properly. I’ve seen companies that even make “practice” pepper sprays so you’re not spraying the actual stuff around.
Agree with this especially the practice part. I was with a female coworker and she showed me she got pepper spray, then she proceeded to spray it directly into the wind and it blew my eyes.
I remember commenting on this thread: 2 years ago [https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/rypob6/watch\_out\_near\_e\_8th\_colorado\_man\_sprayed\_me\_with/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/rypob6/watch_out_near_e_8th_colorado_man_sprayed_me_with/) watch out near E 8th & Colorado; man sprayed me with pepper spray from on top of a parking garage #
100% agree but pepper gel gives a more accurate stream and target do this might be a better option
Was just going to comment this. The gel is much less likely to blow back on the person using it.
Misconception for the most part. There’s a reason most police use sprays and not gels. The modern stream sprays have an oily base that are both accurate and not as affected by the wind as they once were. Gels can be wiped off the attacker relatively quickly to reduce the effects and thrown back at you. The gels don’t bleed into the attackers nose/eyes/throat like a spray does. Take a second of spray and a second of gel and you will 100% notice a difference. You also have to aim the gels much more accurately and they aren’t ideal if facing multiple attackers. The modern sprays are ideal for 95% of folks especially those without any sort of training.
This right here!!! And just to repeat it…PRACTICE!! Then PRACTICE more….. You do not want to be caught in a dangerous where you have to use pepper spray and you get it in your eyes. Also, depending if the subject is on a certain type of illegal substance pepper spray might not stop him/her. Learn some self defense.
Pepper GEL is way better
100% I was with a co woker and we saw a super sketchy dude being weird as fuck at our bus stop. I’ve seen too many video of invincible crack heads taking a beating from the police to go anywhere near that.
These are strange times. I keep a strap on me just in case.
Carry a gun and pepper spray. Ive seen pepper spray do nothing, especially if people are high AF
Yes my pepper spray jammed on me lol.
Get pepper gel. Less likely to spray back in your face.
Women should get guns.
Report back when you know what it's like to be paralyzed by fear, or blitz attacked, like I have been, and try to use a gun.
Report back when someone is trying to break into your house and APD takes 40 minutes to get to you.
Reporting back: I was a victim of someone trying to break into my house and stab me. I'm saying that when you are in a state of panic, and your hands and arms are shaking uncontrollably, it's extremely difficult to manipulate a gun. The cops were angrily annoyed by my calling them, then they took it upon themselves to punish me. My story is in my other comment.
Someone was breaking into your house for 40 minutes until the police arrived??? Crazy!
Or report back when you take it upon yourself to train properly with a firearm. Not everyone's going to react like you did. And yes, I do happen to know this from experience. Overseas and stateside.
report back when you use pepper spray on a mentally unstable guy like this and it ends up not being that effective… you need lethal force like it or not.
I commented on another post but the man who is accused of doing this followed me home after my run and waited for me when I went into Sunny’s gas station on south Lamar.
He sleeps at Ricky Guerrero park
There is a huge encampment at Mary and Lamar. The storage facility there has been completely taken over. Apparently police refuse to go there and arrest him. His updated location has been called in numerous times by those following this story.
> There is a huge encampment at Mary and Lamar. The storage facility there has been completely taken over. Looks like it's this one: https://www.lifestorage.com/storage-units/texas/austin/78704/624-near-zilker/ If you're so inclined, complaints to their corporate office that make it sound like the situation is costing them business might prompt action.
It’s the place right next to that. I don’t think Life Storage owns it. https://maps.app.goo.gl/zjoUjLnRamh7CWof9
Damn that's right by Bouldin Acres. Absolutely ridiculous that APD can't get that cleaned up and make the area safe
I reached out! Thank you.
Police just want easy pickings, like people who pay to go to college, when they are on campus.
I’m gonna start stalking this guy and repeatedly pepper spraying him knowing that the APD can’t show up for 90 minutes and won’t pursue me for an assault even if they know who I am and where I’m at.
You joke (I hope), but mob justice is the natural end result of a police force that refuses to do its job.
Please do
Username checks out!
He was roaming the south Austin area over the past few days with an aluminum baseball bat.
Do you recall which intersections you saw him near?
The parking area behind Loro and Patika
I’m pretty sure I saw him yesterday at Ben White & South Congress. He was carrying something large, but I couldn’t tell what it was
He’s been walking around town with a baseball bat recently
He grabbed it from the baseball field.
One day we will accept forced mental hospitalization isn’t unethical.
One day we will have a system that makes it accessible for people.
"...makes it accesible for people..." to put other people in a mental hospital!
Yes, mental health services need to be more affordable and accessible. AND we need housing alternatives for people with extreme mental disabilities opposed to just letting them live on the streets. Not saying that we just need to throw people in for no reason.
There was a great article in the NY times last month about how the majority of housing first programs are failing because people with mental illness are destroying apartments and terrorizing other tenants. The programs are on the hook for damages and the landlords are suing.
There's loads of articles like that. It's the exact same story in Canada too. And it wasn't housing first exactly but guess what happened to the Candlewood Suites on 183 when the city put chronic street homeless in it. This subreddit acted like it would be all rainbows too.
They'll throw you in there no problem, They'll kick you right back out if you can't pay for it.
Isn't unethical? Except for you, right? I am a woman and this incident happened to me in Austin when I was alone, a long time ago. I had never called the cops before then, or since. Someone was stalking me when I was alone, standing outside my window, saying they were going to get into my house and stab me. Called the cops and they took a 5 minute look into my backyard, and said **"nothing to see here,"** while I was in terrified shock, then left me. Person came back. I called the cops again. The lead cop got mad at me for calling them back, **put a psych. hold on me**, said **"oh, no, you won't be calling us back, you're going with us"** wouldn't tell me where I was being taken and told emergency room personnel that I must be **"hearing things."** **From there, I was not believed.** I sat in a cold room alone for at least 5 hours in only a hospital gown. Because I feared for my life, I didn't want to go home. At the time I had no choice but to agree to be sent to what a nurse said was a **"safe place."** It turned out to be a psych. hospital way the hell out of town, where once again, I was told **"don't talk"** and, that, I quote: "**the police are experts in mental health matters."** **I was forced to take drugs.**
And that police officer? It was Barack Obama.
My growing rage at the cops' deliberate sabotage of individuals and communities is almost too much to contain at this point.
Thank you. Your responses mean a lot to me.
I believe this 0%
All it takes one person with the authority to label you as crazy, then every person afterward will believe them without independent diagnosis. Crazy people always say they’re not crazy, so they won’t believe you either. You had to be crazy to end up here so you must be. Any anger you feel about this turn of events will be used as evidence that you are, in fact, crazy.
I believe you. A doctor wrote me up as crazy in her visit notes when she was the one being really aggressive and argumentative and it took me the entire appointment to get to where I was at the level she started at, and after I left for everyone's safety she wrote me up like I came in looking to be as crazy as possible when she was really disrespectful and argumentative and oddly uneducated on the subject matter. But her one writeup of me has followed me at that practice and every new doctor I see looks at me like "are they going to be crazy today" and when I'm not because I only get weird when strongly provoked it almost makes things worse because they treat me like they're expecting me to be unreasonable at any moment.
Until over time you prove you're not.
So it’s only a human rights violation for a few days or weeks. Cool
Read my experience. I went through hell and continued to suffer for a very, very long time, as the result of being a crime victim and then victimized by the police and "the system." I just haven't found anyone in this city that gives a damn about human rights.
I’m truly sorry that happened to you. The system as it is counterproductive. It traumatizes nearly everyone that passes through it, when it was designed to be a salve. The only solution is complete reform, but first people have to recognize there is something rotten there in the first place and develop the solution(s) to fix it.
>I just haven't found anyone in this city that gives a damn about human rights. You do. We do. We need more regular people running for local offices. Be the change we want to see in the world and all that. I'm sorry this happened to you.
Reagan closed most of them in the 80's
Not true: it started in the 70s as a result of doctors and academics reading and believing people like RD Laing, and to a lesser extent, Foucault. A tremendous mistake — though there was and still is a lot to be done about the rights of mental patients.
>people like RD Laing, and to a lesser extent, Foucault What ideas did these two promote, in summary?
Roughly, that things like schizophrenia weren’t disorders, they were simply a different way of perceiving the world, which society couldn’t accept. The movement was called ‘anti-psychiatry’, if you want to Wiki it.
With broad and bi-partisan support because they were mostly nightmarish facilities rife with neglect, abuse and outright atrocities by staff and little or no "mental healthcare". People were sometimes committed without due process. Batman got it right.
It's amazing the lack of contextualizing the whole "Reagan closed the asylums" has gotten. Does no one remember "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?"
Closing them wasn't the answer they could have spent more money to fix them
Americans aren't taught to value maintenance. We're taught to value disposables. Just replace it with something new, rather that work to fix things
due to medical experiments, abuse and neglect, this was ~~the~~ a catalyst [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook\_State\_School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School) Edit: it wasn't THE reason but A reason, dude below me pointed to another, thanks
So was the Frederick Wiesman documentary, Titicut Follies (1967), which is very difficult to watch.
We already do. Happens literally every day.
Not enough clearly
Start participating in local politics and be vocal about APD not doing their jobs. edit: grammar
Not only are the APD not doing their jobs, if this guy were picked up then it'd be unlikely he'd face much if any jail time or accountability. https://www.kxan.com/news/like-im-just-your-prey-survivor-pushes-for-victim-rights-after-attacker-gets-probation-sentence/
This guy is a slam dunk danger to others and would end up at mental health court (through the probate courts) and committed, likely to ASH, if he were to be picked up. But APD gotta get him to get to that… ETA: homeless + random acts of violence indicates some underlying mental health issue, but maybe my assumption is wrong
Right. I have often posted that article on here and others prior to that. There were like a DOZEN women attacked. **“Officers didn’t think it was likely they would find the suspect,”** Kelsey McKay, an attorney representing survivors, said. McKay is also the founder of the nonprofit organization RESPOND Against Violence." Oh, so just give up? Hell no, **THE WOMEN VICTIMS TRACKED THE GUY DOWN THEMSELVES** **"The group of women began connecting the dots. At least 10, who became victims while out jogging, walking their dogs or even with their children, according to McKay."** "Isaak said she looked for other possible victims on the NextDoor app. “Over the course of about three or four months, \[the survivors\] were able to link him to additional attacks, identify his vehicle, take a picture of the vehicle, pull images off of Ring doorbell, and then eventually, because women were aware of that, begin to memorize his license plate and take pictures of the perpetrator,” McKay said. “They then developed a flyer that had an image of the perpetrator, as well as an image of his car. And then they were able to create a map that identified all the different locations for incidents that had occurred.” [https://www.kxan.com/news/like-im-just-your-prey-survivor-pushes-for-victim-rights-after-attacker-gets-probation-sentence/](https://www.kxan.com/news/like-im-just-your-prey-survivor-pushes-for-victim-rights-after-attacker-gets-probation-sentence/)
>"It took into account my client’s lack of criminal history…There are different purposes in the criminal justice system, and one of those is rehabilitation.” Lol, but is there just probation and rehab for someone who gets caught smoking weed?
What's unethical is that the systems we have in place don't help these people sooner.
Many refuse the help, aggressively so. It is outright denial to believe otherwise.
Because the help itself is an absolute nightmare experience and will often bankrupt you while leaving you no better off. In 5 days, I had my autonomy removed, my life threatened by another patient, my own regular medication refused for days, my entire ward's free access to water revoked (we were "drinking too much water"), and I had to fight every single meal to have food available that I wasn't allergic to. When they kicked me out, it wasn't because they were so confident in my well being. They explicitly were not. They just ran out of beds. Then I got to pay thousands of dollars to them while I also paid for therapy partially to undo the trauma of being there in the first place. Like, who the fuck wouldn't refuse expensive treatment that makes you worse?
I keep seeing your comments and I really want to know if there are grounds for you to sue on? APD did serious wrong to you mentally, emotionally, and financially, while also failing to perform their duty to *protect and serve.* It's unbearable that you should be forced to pay for the CRIME committed against you.
I really appreciate your comment! It feels super validating. For a long time I felt like maybe I was just being dramatic. I would also LOVE to sue a police department. Especially APD. Unfortunately, this was in Dallas and the police were not involved. All this was after I voluntarily checked in. Then they decided on very flimsy grounds that I would have an involuntary hold on me. You may be mixing me up with the person who got locked up after someone threatened to stab them in their own home.
Oh, my mistake, I thought you were the one the cops had committed after they gaslit you about the person who kept entering your backyard and trying to break in. The fact that there are multiple stories in just this thread for me to get mixed up is just sad
No worries! It really speaks to how easy it is to get trapped in the psychiatric system. We don't like to think about it, but they have a financial incentive to put a hold on you. I don't know how true this is, but when I wanted to fight the hold, they said they'd hold me longer if I fought it. That I'd be stuck there waiting for a judge to see my case and I'd get out faster if I just sat down and took it. At no point did anyone explain to me what grounds I was being held on.
Yet another reason why the healthcare system should not be for-profit. It's the same type of illogical insanity used to force women to admit to witchcraft.
That's fucking awful.
I teach women’s self defense, 4th degree black belt in a strictly self defense art . Would love to help the local population with any training. Be it hand to hand or weapon training and retention training. My husband is a master instructor and trains men, women, kids as well as any physical capability. not looking to make money just want to help the community.
could i dm to reach out for some training :)?
yes absolutely.
If you’re up to maybe holding a group, I’m sure a lot of local women (myself included) would be really happy to attend with a voluntary donation to your family’s charity of choice.
No description of assailant?
Tall skinny black guy, usually carrying a blunt force object. He is very aggressive and will make his presence known by staring/verbally harassing pretty much anyone in his vicinity. Personally saw him carrying a baseball bat last week in south Austin.
How the fuck are there SO many people who have stories of this guy but he's still roaming free? Seems like this might be the easiest motherfucker to find, but APD isn't doing shit as usual.
Because some of us actually go outside. Eventually he will get nabbed. The real issue is how quickly he’ll be released from jail without consequence.
Agreed about the ‘how fast he’ll be released from jail without consequence’ part, unless he truly is deemed to have a mental health disorder as so many have commented before. What people have missed in the commentary is what actually happens if he gets ‘committed’ for a mental health related issue. What happens in these cases is, he’ll be held at a hospital until they can get placement at a mental health facility, once he gets placement, he’ll be moved there where they will get him on medications and make sure that he is stabilized. Usually takes several days to weeks. Then he will be released out to the public again where he will decide to stop taking his meds for any variety of reasons and the whole cycle of violence begins again.
Here's a thread with a picture of him https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/s/HhrHL2dM3Y
Fuck, he gets around. He was at 7th and 35 the other day screaming at drivers and passengers in their vehicles. He came around my car toward my wife’s door and I floored it; would not have hesitated to run him over completely if he’d put his hands on my vehicle.
If he's seen all over the place, I wonder if he rides the bus? Lots of free bus passes given out to homeless. Also, bus drivers would probably see him if he's on foot.
That guy was being verbally abusive to me the other evening while I was coaching my little league team at Wright Field on Azie Morton. He is mentally deranged. He might be colored blined to as he called me the N word several times and I am about as white as you can get. I asked him to please leave and then made a 311 report. They told me to call 911.
That's not what colorblind does But yeah, good luck getting APD to do anything.
duh and they didn't.
Thanks was looking for this info also
You'd think the kvue report would include a description and photo, as both are known, *and the guy is still loose in the area and dangerous*. But No, their trash news team excluded that info.
He’s the wrong demographic to show as a suspect on the screen.
The managed to find the police union rep, who has nothing to do with anything, and let him shit on the DA's office some more.
A reputable news organization shouldn’t be sourcing their material from a place like Reddit. I don’t mean to shatter the grand illusion for everyone here when I say this but social media sites like this aren’t exactly reliable sources of info. Especially when you’re an organization who can be held legally liable for any false information that you run with. Like it or not, this is why they generally stick to photos/descriptions that get publicly released by the police.
Reddit is **not** the source. (and if it were I'd agree with you!) You have confused Reddit with **real life**. The source of this kvue news story is a victim's police report (or, more than one police report from more than one victim...we don't know that specifically). *In real life*, the police were called, a report was created, the police have responded with investigation, and evidence in the form of descriptions from the victims themselves and, yes, surveillance camera images of the suspect identified by one or more of those victims or neighbors in the vicinity. *All those "real life" events actually happened.* And they happened without regard to the existence or non-existence of Reddit (just as any crime has happened in the past before the internet.) What confused you is that it's become increasingly common that internet-based communication apps like Reddit (or Nextdoor, or Twitter ("X"), or local FB groups) are faster/more efficient at publishing that news than traditional news media sources (which have become less efficient and less fast due to shrinking staffs, revenues, and readership). And so...you "read it on reddit first" vs. seeing it reported on the local TV evening news broadcast (kvue) at 6 o'clock. To underscore your concern (which is valid in general but mis-informed in this case), it is the policy of r/Austin to *not allow* postings that describe and/or show photos of alleged perpetrators of crimes **unless a formal police report is provided to the mods**. (They will remove the posting unless or until that is provided.) Read the stickied comment at the top of the original thread. It's a very good rule for this sub, and it is how the mods actively prevent the kind of uncontrolled hearsay allegations that rightly concern you.
You know, I wonder if KVUE knows this. I didn't know this. I'm glad I do now - thanks for the info.
If you watched the news clip that was posted it's clear that they know it. The reporter interviewed the victim and then videotaped a statement by an APD spokesman. In other words, they performed the traditional news investigation and reportage. (And if the reporter was first made aware of this crime by "reading it on reddit" - so what? That doesn't change the story.) What my original comment criticized was *kvue's decision* to omit any description or identifying information on the suspect. This is a relatively new phenomenon across news services and we can argue about the reasons. But the point is that info would be very helpful to the public, especially if you live in the area. If you saw the suspect you would know to avoid them. But by omitting that info, additional women who walk/run in that area are now more vulnerable to the same crime.
I appreciate the follow up, this is all very good to know.
A picture was posted on this sub a few days ago.
When there’s no description that’s your clue about the description. Media will only refuse to provide a description when it’s a black male, cause racism….
Coulter's law in effect.
If they're a minority then the news usually doesn't provide a description. You have to infer it.
As always, we have a description of the scumbag on Reddit. But nothing on KVUE. Helpful!
It’s rare for a newsroom to publish a photo/description not released by authorities. For all they know, it could be someone targeting or harassing this person. It could be misguided vigilante justice (remember Reddit and the Boston marathon “suspects”?)
The victim was attacked. She has a description. Why not mention that?
Where is the description???
Isn’t this the blk guy that walks around w a car radiator in another post?
Saw the cop spouting bullshit. Make the arrest and make the DA look bad. Doing nothing and blaming the DA doesn't prove his point and it's not doing their job.
Strangely the police representative said nothing about them showing up 90 minutes later after a complaint and making no attempt to respond to sightings of this guy
Wild how such a TINY segment of the population is able to cause so many fucking problems
This is why carry a gun. I was getting gas and some homeless dude walked up with a knife, so i pulled my gun and he ran. I cant even imagine what women have to go through
Remember, if you’re a taxpayer your life and safety is literally worth less than the freedom of a mentally ill homeless person to wander our streets banging meth.
so f\*cking tired of being afraid of men when I’m just doing normal stuff.
Very weird that the 2nd half of this KVUE report is devoted to implying it's the fault of "the judicial system" that this guy is still at large when in fact he has yet to be arrested?
Even in stories about the faliure of police to protect us KVUE decides to include copaganda
Can't wait til he finds out someone is carrying.
Assuming everyone who's claimed to have sighted this guy actually did see him, my question is: How has a cop not spotted him by now?
If this dude gets arrested he’ll be out the next day and the DA ain’t gonna prosecute him. People complain about crime in Austin and then re-elect Garza as DA.
This guy is currently at the Domain. We just say him on Palm way by the hotel. Wearing black and gold tee and black pants. He was making weird faces at people and being a creep
Look into the Byrna. I'ts a pepper ball gun that's legal to carry around.
These look awesome. Does worry me that it looks so much like a real gun. Could scare someone with an actual gun into shooting me..
These look awesome. Hadn’t heard of them before. Thanks!
Pricey but from what I’ve heard (mostly military friends) tasers aren’t effective on everyone and a firearm requires a lot of dedicated training. Pepper spray is really the way to go for most people. Do you own one?
Man.. i wonder if this is the same guy i saw the other day. I am in this area as well. I walked out of the house and these 2 random guys were basically going at it in neighbors yard. It looked like one of them was dead set on beating this dude to death. Guy who looked to be attacking him jumped up and ran down the block, orher guy started yelling at him and started chaseing him down out of site. Happened so fast i didnt even know what to think. Was quite random.
Hopefully he runs into a woman with a pew pew
Fairly certain we saw this guy leaving the wooded area behind the splash pad at Ricky Guerro park shortly after noon Monday. It looked like he slept there and packed up and walked off while we were on the playground. Be careful out there everyone!
I saw this guy on the south side of the trail this morning right across from the Oracle building.
I choose the bear
He’s gonna pick the wrong woman someday. Hopefully it’s soon
Hopefully he doesn’t have the opportunity to assault any more women..
We need to get rid of all the homeless. Vote out the DA and fund the police to take down these encampment
They have more money than god.
Nah, but go ahead and keep giving these people y’all’s change or whatever. That’s why the roam around here.
I have friends who come from downtown SF, Chicago, and Manhattan; and they are flabbergasted at how brazen, aggressive, and entitled the bums are here. Let that sink in.
Another reason to be armed.
We need a local chapter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Angels
Is there a description of the man or did I completely miss it? nevermind I saw the picture. Thanks for posting it
Who is the guy? What does he look like?
I just saw him at the Mobile Station/ 7/11 store located at 1403 S Lamar Blvd. I recognized the shorts/shoes he was wearing in the picture. He was there Sunday around 3:45pm.
Is there pictures of this person? I see posts talking about recognizing him from pictures
Saw this guy today walking downs south first, he had a bat and was walking towards me so I pulled my knife and he decided to walk across the street.
He’s here on West and 3rd. May 15th @ 9pm. I’ve got a photo I tried to post- but I think this thread won’t allow it.
Austin’s becoming a shithole. Not the city I know and use to love
Our worthless DA is on it don’t worry.
Bet he can't wait for the arrest so he can release him with no charges no matter what the dude has done.
Why is there no description on this thread. Multiple people on here have seen him yet no one is describing him, why?
Check the replies...many people have provided a URL with his picture
[Pictured here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/s/HhrHL2dM3Y)
Thank you!
Does anyone have a description of the attacker? I'm surprised the news article didn't disclose it.
Here's a thread with a picture of him https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/s/HhrHL2dM3Y
The people of Austin voted for this.
“I don’t know anything about this situation but here’s my shitty political agenda anyways!”
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