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Police are expected to release footage of the Jan. 5 incident on Wednesday. Author: Jeff Bell, Luis de Leon Published: 6:53 PM CDT April 27, 2021 Updated: 10:10 AM CDT April 28, 2021 AUSTIN, Texas — The lawyer for an officer involved in a deadly shooting in southeast Austin on Jan. 5 is asking the Austin Police Department and Travis County district attorney to not release body camera footage of the incident as planned on Wednesday. Alex Gonzales, 27, was shot and killed in the incident in the 2500 block of Wickersham Lane. Police said Gonzales...

Travis Co. officials conducting fatality review of NW Austin triple homicide Travis County performing fatality review in NW Austin triple homicide In the coming weeks, Travis County will look at what, if anything, could have stopped Sunday's triple homicide in Northwest Austin. AUSTIN, Texas -  Travis County is conducting a fatality review of the April 18 triple homicide in Northwest Austin. Meaning county officials are examining, what, if anything, could have been done to prevent the violence.  "Is there something we could have done that we didn’t see," explained retired Travis County Co...

By Victor Omondi As reported by a prosecutor this week on Tuesday, two former sheriff deputies were indicted with second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of a Black driver in 2019. The two ex-deputies reportedly shot the man with a taser several times, despite his pleas that he couldn’t breathe because of heart disease. During their fatal encounter with the driver, the two former deputies were recorded by reality television show, “Live PD.” The Black driver, Javier Ambler, had reportedly refused to dim his lights for oncoming traffic. He died after the police chased him for 22 m...

In the past three months, grand juries have indicted as many law enforcement officers in use-of-force cases under Garza's administration as they did within the entire four-year term of his predecessor, Margaret Moore. But even while his office is accruing indictments, experts say there is no guarantee that Garza and his prosecutors will see a courtroom victory.  "Generally, it is really difficult for prosecutors to get a conviction at trial in a police fatality or police brutality case," said Alissa Marque Heydari, a former prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney's office. "Ther...

Some of the attorneys for the family of former Killeen resident Javier Ambler II are no strangers to cases of Black men who have died in police custody. Ambler, who was raised in Killeen and went to Ellison High School, died in police custody on March 28, 2019, after a vehicle pursuit by the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office. The Ambler family is represented by the Edwards Law Group, based in Austin, Ben Crump Law, which has offices across the country, and Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, based in Chicago. Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci of Romanucci & Blandin, LLC are working together with ot...