Three police officers were in stable condition after being shot when they responded to a call at a home in Cedar Park, Texas, north of Austin, police said.
One person remained barricaded inside the house after the shooting, Cedar Park police said on Twitter. Police, firefighters and emergency medical vehicles along the street, according to live video of the scene posted on Facebook by local reporters.
“Just leave the hospital and all 3 ofc’s are in stable condition,” said Mike Harmon, Cedar Park interim chief said on Twitter Sunday night. “Thanks to everyone who expressed their concerns.”
“This remains a very active scene, the subject is not currently in custody,” the police department said. said in a statement.
Neighbors described a burst of gunfire that erupted on a quiet afternoon in the residential neighborhood at Heritage Park.
About seven houses away from where the shooting took place, Andrew Thompson, 30, said he was walking to his front yard when he heard sirens coming to a nearby cul-de-sac and saw at least three police cars.
“They came really close, and I went outside to see what was happening,” Mr Thompson said.
About five minutes after he went outside, Mr. Thompson said, he heard about 20 rounds of gunfire.
He said he saw officers along the road asking other officers to ask for help and noticed several were injured. He said a female officer gave help and that he saw two male officers left, one from the head and one from the arm.
Norma Howell, 44, said she saw two male officers inside ambulances, one running with help, and another being carried in an ambulance.
Another neighbor recalled that police cars drove to the scene before hearing several rounds of guns.
“You don’t think of guns here,” Christine Muat, who lives a block from the shooting scene, said in a statement. interviewer.
Ms Muat said she was in her house when she and her husband saw police cars on the street. Soon they heard “four or five very faint muffled shots,” she said.
Mrs Muat and her husband looked at each other “and then we probably heard three more,” she said.
When Mrs. Muat and her neighbors hugged to make sense of what was happening, more guns emerged.
“Probably eight to 10, loud – it sounds like AK shots – loud, loud,” she said. Thirty seconds later, another round of shots from 10 to 12, she estimates.
‘That was when we all came into the house and went after it,’ she said.
In response to the news asked gooch. Greg Abbott of Texas that all Texans joined him to pray for the officers.
“Our heart goes out to the police officers who were injured in protecting the Cedar Park community this afternoon,” he said in a statement.
