The Austin Police Department is dealing with a second officer-involved shooting this week.
Officers responded about 11 a.m. Friday in Southwest Austin when a woman noticed a man with a shotgun on the Barton Creek Greenbelt, at Barton Springs Road and Spyglass Lane.
SWAT teams later arrived and negotiated with the man for two hours during a standoff. Police say the man put down his gun, walked away and tried to cut himself with a rock.
Authorities say the man then picked up the shotgun again, and that's when officers fired less lethal rounds of plastic bullets, hitting him several times. When that proved unsuccessful, a SWAT member then fired.
"An APD SWAT member fired one round and struck him in the shoulder. The individual - at some point immediately following, this happened in seconds - placed the shotgun in an upright position and fired what we believe to be one round that struck him in the jaw area," Austin Police Chief Stan Knee said.
The man is in Brackenridge Hospital in stable condition. No other information about him is available.
The incident led the lockdown of a nearby elementary school.
Corporal David Austin has been placed on restrictive duty. That’s normal procedure in cases like this.
