It was just before closing time on a Saturday night when a gunman pulled up to one of Austin's busiest entertainment strips and started shooting from his car window. By the time officers arrived, two people were dead, 14 others were wounded, and the shooter himself had been killed at the scene.
The attack on Buford's Backyard Beer Garden on West Sixth Street, in the early hours of Sunday, 1 March, is now the subject of a federal terrorism investigation. Sources told federal investigators the FBI believes the gunman may have been driven by the US's ongoing military strikes on Iran. If proven true, this would put the incident among the most politically charged mass shootings in recent American history.
