The Austin Police Division launched the names of three individuals who have been discovered useless after a standoff that also resulted in the death of Austin police SWAT officer Jorge Pastore on Saturday.
Officers named the suspect as Ahmed Mohamed Nassar, who was discovered useless on the scene after police shot him. Eyman Ahmed Elnemr-Nassar and Riad Mohamed Nassar have been named as the opposite victims.
Public information point out that Ahmed Nassar was son to Eyman Ahmed Elnemr-Nassar and the brother to Riad Mohamed Nassar.
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Authorities stated a 911 caller who known as at 2:49 a.m. was screaming for assist and stated that somebody was stabbing her.
Officers responded about eight minutes later and situated the 911 caller, who stated Ahmed Nassar nonetheless had the knife. She was taken to the hospital.
The discharge states that officers realized that the opposite two members of the family have been nonetheless inside and commenced to make a pressured entrance into the house, the place Ahmed Nassar fired at them at about 3 a.m.
SWAT was known as out and entered the house at about 4:10 a.m. Ahmed Nassar was barricaded within the residence and commenced firing at officers, the discharge stated. This firefight resulted within the demise of Pastore and injured one officer, who has since left the hospital to proceed recovering.
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Officers on the scene, together with Austin-Travis County EMS tactical medics, moved the injured officers to security and commenced to provide medical assist, the discharge stated. Each officers have been taken to a hospital, the place Pastore was pronounced useless.
Authorities stated they found Eyman Elnemr-Nassar and Riad Nassar inside the house with deadly accidents, and so they have been pronounced useless on the scene. Ahmed Nassar additionally died from his accidents and was pronounced useless on the scene.
Experiences that Ahmed Nassar was on an FBI watchlist started circulating on-line on Tuesday. Nevertheless, Anna Sabana, strategic communication and group engagement supervisor for the Austin Police Division, informed the American-Statesman that’s “not correct.”
Austin police acquired a tip about Ahmed Nassar in 2015 about suspicious exercise however didn’t discover any connections to crime or every other cause to proceed surveilling him, according to exclusive reporting by the American-Statesman.
A search warrant for the house the place the incident occurred reveals that Ahmed Nassar had physique armor, night time imaginative and prescient goggles, supplies to make explosives and firearms.
The search warrant stated it’s “not unusual” for individuals who have all of that tactical gear to even have supplies to make explosives.
This text initially appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Austin police identify suspect, victims killed in hostage standoff
