AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Authorities say police in Austin fatally shot a man who threatened to shoot arresting officers after assaulting a woman.
Police Chief Brian Manley says officers responding Sunday evening to reports of a fight between the man and woman found the man in woods near the Pennybacker Bridge.
The man can be heard on body camera footage telling the officers he has a gun and that he will shoot them. The officers tell him to drop his weapon then open fire. The man was declared dead at a hospital.
Manley says the woman is in a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Manley says witnesses saw the couple arguing in a car and that when the woman escaped him, the man chased her and pinned her to the ground. Other drivers rescued her and the man fled.
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