AUSTIN â Prosecutors are dropping criminal charges against two teenagers, including at least one from Killeen, after police identified a different gunman in a mass shooting in downtown Austin that killed a tourist and wounded more than a dozen others, authorities said Tuesday.
Authorities have said the June 12 shooting on Austinâs 6th Street arose after an argument between two groups of teenagers from Killeen. Douglas John Kantor, 25, a tourist from New York, was killed by gunfire.
Police initially arrested 17-year-old Jeremiah Tabb, a Killeen resident and student in the Killeen Independent School District, on an aggravated assault charge and another juvenile, whose name wasnât released. Tabb was taken into custody by Killeen police at Harker Heights High School where he was attending summer school. He was charged as an adult. The juvenile was booked into the Travis County Juvenile Detention Center in Austin.
José Garza will swear in prosecutors from the Williamson County District Attorney's Office as special prosecutors in two open cases surrounding the death of Javier Ambler.
Texas AG s Office launching statewide Cold Case Unit
Texas AG s Office launching statewide Cold Case Unit
The Texas AG s Office is launching a statewide Cold Case Unit to help local law enforcement agencies with almost 19,000 unsolved homicides. In Texas [there] are around 19,000 cold cases and you think about the faces behind those cold cases you can’t afford not to do something, said Mindy Montford, who serves as senior counsel.
Each day, Shawn and Angie Ayers carry the face of a cold case victim with them: Shawn’s little sister Amy Ayers. In 1991 Amy was one of four teenage girls killed in Austin’s infamous I can’t believe it’s Yogurt! shop murders. The girls had been shot in the head, bound and gagged with their own clothes. Some had been raped. Two of the girls worked at the shop. Amy was just 13.