Editors note: This is a stellar response to an active shooter situation. Congratulations to the officers who were involved. Its obvious they were well trained and fully prepared to respond to such an incident in an extremely rapid and coordinated fashion. According to news reports, the gunman was in custody within one minute yes, one minute after firing rounds. It doesnt get much better than that! Nice work, officers!
AUSTIN A man fired several shots into the air Thursday while standing on the Texas Capitol's south steps before throwing down his handgun as state troopers closed in and tackled him, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
Nobody was wounded in the shooting, department spokesman Tom Vinger said. Authorities arrested Fausto Cardenas, 24, who faces felony charges of deadly conduct and was being held in the Travis County Jail, the department said.
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Many lawmakers were away from Austin because the legislature was not in session, and Gov. Rick Perry was not in the building at the time, his office said. Perry commended the troopers who responded to the shooting.
"Thanks to their efforts no one was injured and the shooter was apprehended immediately and taken in to custody," Perry said in a statement.
