TRAVIS COUNTY, TX. (THECOUNT) — Stephen Broderick, a former Texas sheriff’s deputy, was taken into custody Monday after a Sunday Austin shooting that left three people dead in Travis County.
Broderick, 41, was apprehended early monday while on-foot on an Austin highway.
|
Advertisement |
According to reports, police received a call about a man walking on US-290 north of Austin early Monday. Broderick was taken into custody without incident.
Broderick, a former sheriff’s deputy, is accused in the attack that left two women and a man dead on Sunday at an Austin apartment complex.
Police say the killings were an isolated domestic situation and there is no outstanding threat to the public.
The cause of the deadly incident remains under investigation.
DEVELOPING::
Geo quick facts: Travis County is a county in south central Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,024,266; the estimated population in 2019 was 1,273,954. It is the fifth-most populous county in Texas. Its county seat is Austin, the capital of Texas – Wikipedia.