Two people were stabbed Wednesday night at The Buzz Mill in Austin, and the suspect fled the scene only to crash into a robotaxi before police caught up with them. Officers responded to the coffee shop at 1505 Town Creek Drive at approximately 8:54 p.m., and both victims were taken to local hospitals.
According to KXAN Austin, the Austin Police Department confirmed that two people were stabbed and that the suspect left the scene afterward, striking a robotaxi in the process. Police later questioned the suspect, though the station reported that APD had not released additional details about the circumstances of the stabbing or the identities of those involved as of Wednesday night.
KXAN described its report as a developing story, meaning the full picture of what happened inside The Buzz Mill, and how the crash into the robotaxi unfolded, had not yet come into focus. It remains unclear what kind of robotaxi was involved or how the collision occurred.
Robotaxi Crashes Have Piled Up Across Austin
The incident lands amid heightened scrutiny of autonomous vehicles operating on Austin streets. Tesla's robotaxis alone have been involved in 14 crashes in the city since the service launched there in June 2025, per CBS News. The outlet reported that the five most recent of those incidents occurred in December and January and caused no injuries, while most of the crashes overall resulted in property damage from collisions with another vehicle or a fixed object.
CBS News also noted that two earlier incidents, in July and October of the prior year, resulted in minor injuries.
Tesla Touts Its Own Safety Numbers
Separately, Tesla has published its own data on robotaxi performance in Texas. The company's Robotaxi Safety Results, covering collisions and mileage from Jan. 22 through Oct. 18, 2026, state that its vehicles logged 2.95 million miles in Austin, Dallas and Houston during that span, representing 95% of total robotaxi mileage. Tesla reported no airbag deployments and no collisions in which a robotaxi made first contact with a pedestrian or cyclist during that period.
Tesla also estimated that human drivers covering the same mileage in Texas would have been expected to have about 9.1 collisions involving an injury and about 4.1 collisions involving their own airbag deploying. Those figures are company-reported and do not establish that Tesla's estimates have any bearing on the crash connected to Wednesday's stabbing in Austin.
Austin maintains a police-report database searchable by district, ZIP code, census tract or case number, and the records are updated daily. No case number or official incident narrative tied to the Buzz Mill stabbing has surfaced publicly, and KXAN indicated further updates were expected as the investigation continues.
