It seems like a crazy random shooter is loose in Austin.
Police are searching for a suspect or suspects driving a damaged vehicle in connection with a series of apparently random shootings that happened across the city Saturday.
Suspect wantedThe Austin Police Department issued an urgent appeal to the community on Sunday, asking residents to remain vigilant as detectives work to establish a motive and identify those responsible.
According to investigators, the Saturday shootings appeared to target random locations and victims, with no clear pattern or connecting motive identified so far.
Authorities described the suspect as a white or Hispanic male in his late teens.
The suspect vehicle is described as a black or dark blue 2012 Hyundai Sonata. Police noted the car has a broken front or rear right passenger window. The Austin Police Department is also searching for a white KIA Optima the suspect(s) may be traveling in.
Members of the public are warned not to approach the vehicle or the suspect if spotted, but to call 911 immediately…
Anyone with information regarding the shootings, the suspect’s identity, or the location of the vehicle is urged to contact the Austin Police Department’s Aggravated Assault Unit at 512-974-5177.
Anonymous tips can also be submitted through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program at austincrimestoppers.org or by calling 512-472-8477. A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information that leads to an arrest.
The situation is serious enough that I actually got an alert for it on my iPhone:
That’s all south to far-south Austin, so nowhere near me.
Seems more random than your average active shooter. While it could be a crazy far-left TDS sufferer, my money is on random nutcase. It looks like Loony McShootsALot is in a shoe store or something, and it’s hard to think of a political reason to start blazing away there.
Developing…
Update: Two suspects in custody, one remains at large, and that suspect is evidently being chased out in Manor.
Update 2: Sounds like teenagers being complete assholes.
APD Chief Lisa Davis said a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old were taken into custody Sunday. The older suspect had an outstanding warrant for theft of a handgun at a store, and the younger suspect stole a gun from the same store Saturday.
The suspects were responsible for around 20 calls to APD, primarily in south and east Austin, Davis said. She said the suspects fired into various buildings, apartment complexes and two Austin Fire Department stations, hitting a truck.
Four people were shot, and one of those is now stable after suffering serious injuries, Davis said. Two of the people were shot in front of a store that was caught on a polecam, and the suspects stole several cars during their spree, Davis said.
Update 3: Third suspect detained. “Late Sunday night, the Manor Police Department announced a third suspect who fled from a vehicle during a pursuit in Manor had been located and detained. Officials said there is “no ongoing threat to the public at this time.”
Update 4: “One of the three suspects charged in connection with multiple shootings over the weekend in Austin has been identified as 17-year-old Cristian Mondragon, according to law enforcement sources.” Gun theft occurred at “321 W. Ben White Blvd,” which is Central Texas Gun Works, run by Michael Cargill, of the Garland v. Cargill bump stock case.
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Hang them from the nearest lamppost.
If our age admits, with equanimity, that murder has its justifications, it is because of this indifference to life which is the mark of nihilism.–Albert Camus
When the Left lionized Luigi Mangione, the accused murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson,, it signaled that nihilism had made deep inroads among Democrats.
It clearly affected Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirks killer, about whom Donald Trump claimed, “Something happened to him over a fairly short period of time. It looks like he was radicalized over the internet, and it’s radicalized on the left. He’s a left.”
Is it any surprise to find Austin is reaping the whirlwind after a lengthy flirtation with Democrats?
You almost get the sense that Democrats are losing their grip on power and are signaling they will use any means to keep it.
“(Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ) – A Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate is facing serious criminal allegations after authorities say he left threatening messages targeting Sen. John Fetterman, Fetterman’s family and President Trump.
“Raymond Eugene Chandler III was arrested after investigators reviewed voicemails that allegedly included violent threats and disturbing language aimed at multiple people. The accusations immediately sparked concern because they involved not only a sitting U.S. senator, but also the senator’s daughter and the president.”
https://wabcradio.com/2026/05/04/dem-candidate-threatened-president-trump-john-fettermans-family/
“Sounds like teenagers being complete assholes”
Egging a house is teenagers being assholes. This is sociopaths who haven’t learned to regulate their behavior. It’s pure luck no one was killed; if someone had been killed, I would say hang all three.
There was a random dude with a semi automatic rifle on Memorial Drive in Cambridge MA about a week ago. Stopped by an officer and a civilian with a carry license (believe you me in Cambridge MA you are more likely to find a unicorn than someone with a carry license). No one killed but 2 severely injured and several with minor injuries. This seems to be endemic all of a sudden, of course it could be random chance, but yet it seems the violent fringes and lunatics are somehow more motivated. Not what one wants.
“Egging a house is teenagers being a**holes. This is sociopaths who haven’t learned to regulate their behavior.” (bowdlerized version)
The suspects stole two guns and at least four vehicles and then used them in 12 separate shooting incidents across Austin that left four people injured, one critically.
Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis was at a loss to explain the attackers’ actions. “I don’t know what motive would drive anybody to come and drive around senselessly in this city and shoot,”
Well lessee: punks steal cars and guns, which violates the 8th Commandment. Punks then attempt to ring up a sizable tally on their 6th Commandment score card. H-m-m, sounds kinda maybe a little like they are motivated by their antisocial defiance of God’s Law.
Howzabout it, Lisa: can you register even a small measure of indignation against this affront to the Majesty and Dignity of God?
Michael Cargill, owner of Central Texas Gun Works had given Austin’s Poluce Department information leading to the arrest and subsequent release of Cristian Mondragon* for theft of a pistol.
Odd then, that Police Chief Lisa Davis was befuddled by the punk’s antisocial conduct when he realized he had nothing to fear from the penal system. Throughout this crime spree, the DA and PD did as little as possible to stop it.
*Do you suppose he’s distantly related to King Arthur Pendragon of Camelot??
Cristian “Fajardo” Mondragon has a Spanish surname, occasionally surfacing in Peru, Honduras and Guatemala but native to Galicia in Northern Spain. You can only speculate as to the identity of the sixteen-year-old who partnered with him but the fifteen-year-old boy is not part of Mondragon household.
@ R C Dean says:
May 18, 2026 at 7:44 AM
RE “This is sociopaths who haven’t learned to regulate their behavior”
By FAR the most vital urgent and DEEP understanding everyone needs to gain is that a mafia network of manipulating PSYCHOPATHS (or sociopaths) is, and always has been, governing big businesses and institutions (eg official medicine, big academia, big tech, big banks, big religions), governments and the world — the evidence is very solid in front of everyone’s “awake” nose: see “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room”… https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
“We’ll sit on the edge of our seats watching made-up tales about psychopathic killers while psychopathic killers rule the world.” — Caitlin Johnstone, Independent Journalist
Yet…
“I’ve come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people’s perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of WHAT THEY WANT, AND DO NOT WANT, TO BE TRUE.” — Travis Walton, Author
And sociopaths or psychopaths are typically NOT how Hollywood propaganda movies (or the Wikipedia/WebMD propaganda outlets) have showcased them. And therefore one better RE-learns what a psychopath REALLY is. One’ll then know why they exploit/harm everyone, why they want to control everyone and have been creating a new world order/global dictatorship, and many other formerly puzzling things will become very clear.
But global rulership by psychopaths is only ONE part of the equation that makes up the destructive human condition as the cited article above explains.
Without a proper understanding, and full acknowledgment, of the true WHOLE problem and reality, no real constructive LASTING change is possible for humanity.
And if anyone does NOT acknowledge, recognize, and face (either wittingly or unwittingly) the WHOLE truth THEY are helping to prevent this from happening. And so they are “part of the problem” and not part of the solution.
“The world is the way that it is because most people do not care enough (even if they SAY they want things to be different) to change it through their actions.” — Mark Passio, Spiritual Teacher
“There are large numbers of scientists, doctors, and presstitutes who will sell out truth for money, such as those who describe people dropping dead on a daily basis [after getting a Covid-19 jab] as “rare” when it it happening all over the vaccinated world.” — Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D., American economist & former US regime official, in 2024
“If we have learned anything in the past six years, it is that vaccinologists, doctors, and the government in general do not have good intentions and never did. The clear intention of everyone concerned was and is to make as much dirty money as possible, letting any amount of collateral damage slide, including a genocide and mass poisoning [with Covid-19 jabs]. The fact [is] that Big Pharma just murdered millions of people, with the full support of government, media, and “science”. With Covid, everyone is part of the fraud, many of them paid off, so no one has any reason to expose it, and big reasons to bury it. Don’t believe anything these people tell you, ABOUT ANYTHING. It isn’t time for a civil war against your neighbors, it is time for a revolution against these hoaxers and thieves.” — Miles Mathis, American author, in 2025
“Ignorance is the root cause of all Evil. Since only Knowledge eradicates ignorance, it is our duty and moral obligation to educate ourselves, as well as the masses around us.” — Anonymous
Speaking of ignorance is evil, how can the masses get out of this mess? First, everyone needs to learn, and teach others, what true morality is (it’s NOT the same as religious morality): https://www.whatonearthishappening.com/news/988-mark-passio-interviewed-by-axel-dahi-2026-04-16