2026 Austin bar shooting - Wikipedia On March 1, 2026, a mass shooting occurred at Buford's Backyard Beer Garden on West Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas, United States The perpetrator, 53-year-old naturalized US citizen, Ndiaga Diagne, opened fire with a pistol from a vehicle at people inside and outside the bar before parking, and used an AR-15–style rifle to shoot at people along West Sixth Street and its connecting
FBI Provides Investigative Update on March 1 Austin Shooting The shooter, Ndiaga Diagne, a 53-year-old born in Senegal and living in Austin, Texas, died from wounds sustained during an exchange of gunfire with Austin Police Department officers who responded
Ndiaga Diagne: Who was the Austin, Texas, mass shooter? | CNN Ndiaga Diagne, a Senegalese immigrant-turned US citizen, was not on the radar of local police or the FBI before Sunday’s attack Now, his personal life, criminal history and private affiliations
Austin shooting suspect had domestic violence history See our AI policy on our About page and give us feedback Four days after the deadly shooting on West Sixth Street early Sunday morning, the Pflugerville neighborhood where suspected gunman Ndiaga Diagne once lived is quiet again, the shock of the attack now receding from view even as questions about his past grow sharper
FBI finds no evidence connecting Bufords shooter to . . . The shooter, 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, killed 19-year-old Ryder Harrington, 30-year-old Jorge Pederson and 21-year-old Savitha Shanmugasundaram, and injured 15 others at Buford's bar using weapons he had legally purchased years earlier The attack is being considered an “impulsive” act, according to an FBI news release issued Thursday