Kavita Tewari says she is haunted each day by the howl of ambulance sirens ringing through the streets near her home in New Delhi, India. For her and countless others in the South Asian country, the recent spike in coronavirus cases and deaths has been a crisis like nothing else she has experienced before. It’s a sad situation everywhere you look. I really don’t know what we can do for these people, but we really want to do some little bit, Tewari said. We have to do something.
India suffers from a shortage of oxygen tanks, so Tewari and a small group of her friends in Austin are searching for ways to buy and ship medical devices that concentrate the oxygen in the air and make it available to treat COVID-19 patients. They have started a GoFundMe page to raise funds for the effort.
19-year-old dies after being shot at Southeast Austin apartment complex, police say
A 19-year-old was was fatally shot Thursday night at a Southeast Austin apartment complex, according to Austin police.
Officers responded around 6:50 p.m. Thursday to a call about a shooting at the Goodnight Commons apartments, east of the intersection of East Slaughter Lane and Bluff Springs Road, police said.
Police found the 19-year-old, who has not been identified, with multiple gunshot wounds.
In a media briefing held hours after the shooting, officer Demitri Hobbs, a police spokesman, said investigators think the teenager was shot near an outside stairwell at the apartment complex.
Interim Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacon on Thursday is expected to provide comments on Texas permitless carry bill, which, if passed and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, would allow people in the state to carry a handgun without a license.
House Bill 1927, which was passed through the Texas House last week, seeks to remove the requirement of people who are 21 years or older to obtain a license to carry a handgun in public. The license current requires people to go through a criminal background check and training course.
Earlier this month, Chacon announced that the Police Department would be starting a new program to curb gun violence in the city. During a virtual news conference about the new effort, Chacon declined to comment on his thoughts on the permitless carry bill.
Months after widespread power failures during the sustained freeze in February, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Tuesday named an interim president and CEO to lead the state s electric grid operator.
In the weeks following the freeze, Bill Magness, the former president and CEO of ERCOT, which serves about 90% of Texas, was fired by the agency s board of directors. Seven members of ERCOT s board of directors also resigned from their positions.
Brad Jones, CEO of New York s main electric grid operator from October 2015 to October 2018, will start his tenure as the president and CEO of ERCOT on May 4, the agency said Tuesday.
A man was arrested Friday in connection to a fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man in North Austin earlier this month, but Austin police say two others accused of the slaying are still at large.
One of the three suspects, Warren Mitchell, 21, was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Oklahoma last week and is facing a first degree murder charge, according to police.
Authorities said two more men are believed to have been involved in the shooting and killing Kedarius Griffin, who was struck in the head by gunfire during the incident. The shooting was reported around 7:24 p.m. on April 14 near a McDonald s restaurant at the intersection of Rundberg Lane and Lamar Boulevard, police have said.