More info on the machete attack. Watch our fuckhead DA release this asshole back on the streets.
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/1-person-taken-to-hospital-after-reported-stabbing-near-auditorium-shores/
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A machete attack reported Tuesday morning near Auditorium Shores was a “random and unprovoked attack” on a teenager, law enforcement sources told KXAN.
A person is in custody and the teenager is in the hospital after the attack, the Austin Police Department said.
Paramedics rushed one person, later identified as the teenager by law enforcement sources, to the hospital with serious, potentially life-threatening injuries, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.
APD and ATCEMS told KXAN that medics responded at about 10 a.m. to the 100 block of South First Street, which is near the trail on the south side of Lady Bird Lake.
‘There was a lot of blood’
Justin Graber was pulling up to the area after the attack happened. Graber saw the person’s injuries.
“There was a lot of blood,” Graber said. “Lacerations to the forearm, behind the ear, lower body to an extent.”
Graber said after attacking the first victim, the suspect approached another person.
Nathan Kurten said that was him.
“I yelled, ‘I’m calling 911.’ You know, ‘Give it up,'” Kurten said. “Then at that point, he stopped but he started chasing me.”
Kurten said eventually the attacker stopped following him and went back on the trail path.
“I was still on the phone with the police, you know, trying to direct them to where he might be,” Kurten said.
Once police arrived, Kurten said they arrested the suspect and asked Kurten to identify him.
“I want to make sure they caught him because I didn’t want him out on the streets,” Kurten said.
Kurten said people he spoke with in the area said the suspect threw the machete into the river.
He said police mentioned they’d send a dive team to look for the weapon.
From Reddit:
Exotic_Perception168
•3 hr. ago
I came upon the attacker while walking my dog. He was standing over the victim beating him. I yelled I was calling 911. He stopped hacking at the victim and started chasing me with the machete! I was on the phone with 911 as he chased me and my dog. It was surreal. The operator said the cops were 2 minutes away and I was like "please hurry a maniac is chasing me!" He chased me across the park from the gazebo to the off leash area then he thankfully gave up and started walking along the hiking trail. I followed behind keeping an eye on him until he crossed the pedestrian bridge which is when the cops arrived and got him. Whew. Adrenaline.
TwoFastTooFuriousTo
•5 hr. ago
talked with first hand witness who helped with a tourniquet. he used his own shirt to help the victim and he said he looked like he'd survive. bloody scene he said. he was in shock. i was just riding into work and couldn't go past the yellow tape and i asked this guy sitting there what happened. i saw a handful of cop cars and suvs, maybe 10 and even someone who was seemingly voluntarily getting into the backseat of a patrol car, maybe a witness (not in handcuffs).
shout out to the guy who i talked to who gave me all this info and gave his shirt to the victim as a tourniquet. he also was talking to 911 when someone was screaming and handed him a phone with 911 on it.
my story is written weirdly i know, but i'm still shook from that