No evidence Austin mass shooting suspect was associated with a foreign terrorist organization, FBI concludes

The FBI has released new information about the mass shooting outside an Austin, Texas, bar in March that left three people dead, concluding the suspected shooter was a lone actor, who was not associated with a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

“There is no evidence of outside direction or radicalization; rather, the investigation indicates an escalation in violent behavior in part tied to specific personal triggers and grievances related to U.S. and Israeli military actions involving Iran, culminating in a violent, impulsive attack,” according to a press release from the FBI.

Ndiaga Diagne, a 53-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Senegal, circled the bar on the popular 6th Street in Austin, Texas, in the early morning hours on March 1 and then opened fire on people outside the bar, according to authorities. Three people were killed and more a dozen were injured.

Diagne was killed in a confrontation with police officers.

The gunfire occurred the same weekend the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, killing the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the opening hours of the war.

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