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Top Austin news: Austin Pride celebrates love; SWAT team responds to incident at hotel; more

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Published on August 12, 2019
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Austin Pride Parade celebrates love

"It's just a celebration of people being who they are," said one participant in Sunday's Pride Parade.

Read the full story on KVUE.

Victim identified in bar parking lot shooting

Twenty-six-year-old Julio Cesar Gamez-Contreras was pronounced dead at the scene and two others were seriously injured in the early Sunday shooting in a parking lot on Lamar Boulevard at Masterson Pass, just north of Rundberg Lane.

Read the full story on KVUE.

SWAT team responds to incident in northwest 

Police evacuated the Extended Stay of America hotel in the 13800 block of north U.S. 183 after a man threatened to shoot it up Sunday night. The SWAT team arrived after the man barricaded himself in a room. The man was later arrested.

Read the full story on KVUE.


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