A Sunday night crowd at Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden had gathered for drinks and live music when gunfire shattered the routine hum of the bar. Within minutes, panic replaced party chatter — and a 53-year-old man with a trail of incendiary online posts was dead after a shootout with police.
The man, identified as Ndiaga Diagne, carried out a shooting at Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden in Austin. Authorities believed Diagne may have been motivated by the US and Israeli missile strikes on Iran, but the FBI and local police said it was too soon to identify his motive.
