Justice · Sixth Street shootingAustin Voodoo Room shooting: One wounded person found, injury total unresolvedWritten November 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM UTCWatchTranscript0:07Paramedics took one shooting victim from the voodoo room to a hospital.0:11Officers found one wounded person after reports that two people might have been0:14shot.0:15The total number hurt is still unclear.0:17Investigators still have to determine whether someone else was injured and who0:20fired.0:20The shooting happened at the Voodoo Room, a bar in the400 block of East Sixth Street0:25in downtown Austin.0:26It happened early Sunday, November1, after Saturday's Halloween celebrations.0:31The preliminary injury total was at least two.0:33Police said officers responded to reports that two people might have been shot, but0:37found one person with a gunshot wound.0:39That person had been wounded in a lower extremity.0:42Police said the injury didn't appear serious when paramedics took the patient to a0:45hospital.0:46Police could confirm one wounded person found and one hospital transport.0:50Those refer to the same patient.0:52Finding that patient leaves open whether anyone else was hurt.0:54By later Sunday morning, the injury count still stood at one person found wounded.0:59The possibility of another injured person hadn't been resolved.1:02Police put the shooting around one thirty seven in the morning.1:05They couldn't say whether that was before or after the clocks changed for the end of1:08daylight saving time.1:09That leaves its place within the repeated hour unclear.1:12Police also put the dispatch call shortly before two in the morning.1:15That broader timing refers to the same shooting.1:17Police had increased patrols and overtime staffing downtown for Halloween weekend.1:22The shooting came on a weekend that also included a University of Texas football1:26game, adding another major event to the city's public safety preparations.1:30Police expected the University of Texas football game to draw eighty zero to one1:34hundred zero people downtown.1:36That estimate was part of the planning for a weekend, combining football and1:39Halloween celebrations.1:40Police, emergency medical services, and firefighters operated under a unified1:44command.1:44That meant coordinating emergency responses and keeping communication clear across1:48the agencies.1:49Police are investigating the shooting as aggravated assault.1:51Investigators still have to work out what led to the gunfire and identify whoever1:55was responsible.1:56Police had been searching for a suspect.1:58By Sunday morning, they said nobody had been arrested.Read the articleStory timelineHeyDex
