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I’m Dave frck thanks for watching this crime watch YouTube exclusive where we take a look back at recent crime stories that have been making headlines in our area and across the state New Body camera video shows the moment a night out on 6th Street turned deadly happened

In December when Austin Police tried to approach a man outside of a bar Fox Austin’s Lauren rangal takes a look at the video which shows the moment police approach your man outside the bar on 6th and the shootout happens minutes before midnight on December 16th who is it group group right here Austin

Police make their way to Soho Lounge on 6th Street an employee of the bar tells officers he wasn’t letting someone in I the D was like not one to be searched the suspect in yellow is 29-year-old Trey Hernandez he put his hand there was a police say Hernandez was attempting to

Bring a gun into the the bar which is illegal in Texas he’s got a gun in his pocket who this guy right here body cam video shows officers make their way over to Hernandez in the corner but hey do we do we have us do we

Have that stop if we try to get in but as they approach footage shows Hernandez pulling out his gun surveillance video from another angle shows Hernandez firing his gun in the direction of officers and Bystanders three officers fired back three bystanders were injured and taken to the hospital only one had serious injuries no Austin police officers were injured Hernandez died on the scene I got up I got got go go go there’s both a criminal and administrative investigation happening investigators are also looking to see if

The injuries from the bystanders came from police or Hernandez’s firearm all three of the officers involved are now on administrative Duty per APD protocol well the search is on for an arsonist as firefighter spent the New Year’s weekend battling several fires they say were intentionally set in southeast Austin

Afd responded to five suspicious fire Fires at four different spots four of the fires were within 10 minutes of each other two were started at the Jimmy clay Golf Course another in a shed near Rodriguez Elementary School all of these fires are under investigation and it’s unknown whether they’re

Connected we can’t say which ones we deem connected right now but we are investigating all of them as trly suspicious afd says the type of charges the suspect or suspects could face will be determined based on the findings of their investigation Austin Police believe accused serial

Killer r Mesa Jr may be linked to a cold case from 2018 Austin Police were able to file a search warrant to gain access to mesa’s Gmail account bux Austin’s Jessica Rivera has details on why police believe this will help them discover more information about the crimes he’s admitted

To rul Mesa Jr is sitting in the Travis County Jail after admitting to the murder of Gloria Elizabeth Lofton in 2019 and Jesse Fraga in 2023 Mesa was arrested for the murder of Fraga on May 29th after he confessed to the murders over the phone to Austin Police here’s a

Serial killer that that Justice was not served during the time of mesa’s arrest he had a cell phone on him police were able to pull a Google account linked to that phone according to a search warrant the Austin Police Department filed on January 2nd the police are looking to

Obtain mesa’s Google data from November 1st 2016 through May 29th 2023 police are searching the account after a detective identified an APD Cold Case homicide from 2018 that matches the mo of Mesa this man’s been ruining generations of lives through decades so we’re going to hopefully make it stop

Mesa claimed to have shot two people in San Antonio from the end of 2018 to the beginning of 2019 this information is still under investigation the search warrant also says police believe Mesa committed a dis sexual assaults and murders after his supervised release in 2016 and believe the data from the

Google account will assist the police department and cooperating Mesa as a suspect in the murder of Gloria Lofton Jesse Fraga and the shooting he admitted to in San Antonio as well as additional Cold Case homicides one teenager is dead another’s Behind Bars after a shooting in Round

Rock on New Year’s Day police say that teenage suspect is now charged with manslaughter in the case Fox Austin’s Amanda Ruiz has more yeah the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office came out to this street in Round Rock for the reports of a suspicious death when they came out here

That’s when they found that 17-year-old Dead with a gunshot wound his family now says he’ll be remembered as their protector on the first morning of 2024 the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office was called out to this part of a reso drive in response to a shooting there they found 17-year-old andere Bowser

Dead with an obvious gunshot wound oh my God Bowser’s family still can’t believe he’s gone he was the best person I ever met is my best friend Bowser’s little sister aunt and mother spoke to Fox 7 Austin the day of the shooting it’s my son that’s my first

Born they say he was a loving big brother who was funny a great rapper and always put his family first my baby is the sweetest he was he was everything to me you know even when we was you know not getting along he was still like he

Was my mama’s Rock the wilow sheriff’s office has not released details as to what led up to the shooting death of Bowser but the department has confirmed a juvenile suspect is in custody and charged with manslaughter in connection to this case due to the suspect’s age no

Other information can be released as for Bowser’s family they are calling for gun reform I just want people to know if there’s anything that you can do to stop violence do that especially gun violence is killing our boys we losing Sons out here and it’s senseless

Violence this case is now in the hands of the county attorney’s office reporting in Round Rock amand Ruiz Fox 7 Austin news also in Round Rock police are looking for three men in an assault outside of a sports bar back on December 12th police were called to the Twin

Peaks on Lou hna Boulevard they say the men attacked two others in the parking lot even pointed a gun in the direction ction of the victims both those victims suffered minor injuries before officers arrived the suspects took off in a silver Jeep Latitude if you recognize any of these men or have information

About the fight you’re asked to please call Round Rock Police New details have been revealed in Caitlyn Armstrong was pregnant around the time of her arrest that’s according to court filings by her defense team obtained by The Daily Mail filings of that defense team argue that if the jury

Had known about this they would have given Armstrong more lenient sentence a jury convicted Armstrong of shooting and killing pro cyclist Anam Mariah Wilson last year back in the fall she was sentenced to 90 years in prison over the recent holidays cameras caught people stealing items from a

Truck in Lov Vista the owner of the truck is a disabled veteran Fox ofan Austin’s crime watch reporter Meredith Aldis has that story 2:00 in the morning the blink camera went off the video shows three people in a logo Vista neighborh neighborhood opening the doors to Steven

Ker’s truck and rumaging through it they took everything including clothes Christmas presents money military memorabilia his ID and medication to help keep him alive it’s basically like my house was in there kellerer is a disabled Army veteran who had a liver transplant in 2019 I’ve been trying to

Help people like ever since he says he volunteers with team Rubicon a veteran-led nonprofit that helps communities during disasters um we cut the way in for emergency vehicles to get in and out to save people hurricanes tornadoes any type of disaster he says he travels often with them that’s why so

Many of his belongings were in his truck at the time taking everything that somebody has is horrible kellerer says he lives to help people but has now become a victim I go help people that I never met before old young never seen them we just pull up to

Them and I go there long before I see them if somebody I see needs help or ask for help I would have literally given them all the same stuff out of my truck if they just asked for it like I literally work to volunteer and help people i l life to help people

And to see the opposite happens pretty bad as more people become victims police are reminding people to lock take hide so lock your car uh take your keys with you hide anything that’s in the vehicle so it’s not in plain view Meredith Alis Fox 7 Austin news in San Antonio police have arrested

A father and son in connection with the deaths of Savannah SoDo and her boyfriend Matthew Getta 19-year-old Christopher Prado has been charged with capital murder and 53-year-old Ramone Prado is charged with abuse of a corpse in the case police say a cell phone they found while collecting evidence near

Stto and gh’s bodies LED detectives to the suspect vehicle police say the deaths were the result of a drug deal gone wrong stto and G were killed on December 21st just before midnight 5 days before their bodies were found soda was 9 months pregnant and a week past

Her due date police say Christopher Pres is the alleged sole killer in the case but that his father helped hide the bodies police and mayor are asking for help as they try to identify four suspects who were caught on camera burglarizing a cannabis store fox7 Austin’s Angela Shen has a look at the

Video it was business as usual on Thursday at Delta Bros and twisted Liquors but early Wednesday morning it was a different story the owners say the suspects broke in through this window and when they got inside they got away with with tens of thousands of dollars

Worth of merchandise at 253 a white Kia pulls up the suspects get out of the car with boxes and break the window to the store they can be seen breaking glass cases and grabbing things off the shelves it was like nicotine disposable babes uh Edibles for CBD Edibles that we

Sell with the TAC and stuff like that some glass pieces Electronics devices that we sell I mean it was it was a big chunk of change in minutes they come back out dumping boxes of product into the car the owners didn’t want to be on camera because they’re worried about

Their safety for us is very painful cuz like this is our this is our our future is the only thing we have this is how we get paid this how we support our family and the burglary mainly happened on the Delta Bros side of the store but a

Suspect tried to grab a bottle on the Twisted Liquor’s side you know their kids but the thing about it this is not what they’re doing is not K stuff you know they’re breaking into people’s property and and and and and stealing what we work so hard for you know it’s a

Lot of money and it’s a lot of sweat and Blood and Tears and everything you know so it’s it’s hard the businesses have only been open for about 2 years this isn’t the first time they’ve been broken into it happened in August as well as mayor police look for help identifying

These suspects the owners want others to know this is happening so we just want to alert the community of Mayor Elgen Austin to be aware that there’s a lot of burgly going on stealing cars the thing that we can do is is try to work as a

Community and try to find some type of way of bringing this these people to to Justice the owners say they’re still calculating how much they’ve lost if you have any idea who these suspects are you can call Mayor police uh and give them that information well we end in Houston where

A customer who shot and killed a robber at a takaria will not be facing charges Harris County grand jury noil the shooter who was at the El ranito restaurant when Eric Washington went in and robbed several customers the owner of the takaria spoke with Fox to give his reaction to the jury’s

Decision yeah he says that he’s he feels good that it doesn’t bother him I mean he wasn’t a I think anybody in that situation would have done the same um they only care about how they for their safety and I believe he did what he had to do surveillance video showed the

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