Overview

• APD says an officer and a woman were shot early Wednesday near Azie Morton Road after an encounter linked to a stolen vehicle, with the officer recovering post-surgery and the woman seriously injured.
• A shelter-in-place text went out before dawn, then an all-clear was issued around 6:30 a.m. even though the gunman was still at large near Barton Hills Elementary.
• Police report the suspect was taken into custody around 8 a.m. after a homeowner shot him on private property, and the homeowner later credited the alert for helping keep his family safe.
• Chief Lisa Davis said the department is investigating why the all-clear was sent, and KUT reported the text reached more than 178,000 people through the regional Warn Central Texas system.
• APD confirmed alerts were targeted to enrolled users within a set radius, AISD said it relied on the mistaken all-clear before securing campuses, and city leaders are pursuing local authority to send their own alerts.