Texas college student identified among victims in Austin bar shooting probed as possible terror attack

A Texas assemblage pupil was identified arsenic 1 of the victims gunned down by a suspected violent astatine a fashionable barroom implicit the weekend. 

Ryder Harrington, a pupil astatine Texas Tech University, was killed by gunfire astatine Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden successful Austin connected Sunday morning, according to a GoFundMe leafage created by his fraternity, Beta Theta Pi. 

"Ryder was a beloved son, brother, and person whose kindness and beingness touched countless lives," the tribute said. "From the infinitesimal helium joined our brotherhood, helium brought a airy that was intolerable to ignore."

Harrington and 1 further unfortunate were killed and 14 others injured aft Ndiaga Diagne, a 53-year-old naturalized U.S. national calved successful Senegal who lived successful Pflugerville, Texas, opened occurrence connected the fashionable nightlife hub adjacent the University of Texas astatine Austin conscionable aft 2 a.m. Sunday.

Ryder Harrington, a pupil astatine Texas Tech University, was killed by gunfire astatine Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden successful Austin connected Sunday morning, according to a GoFundMe leafage created by his fraternity, Beta Theta Pi.  (@ttubeta/Instagram)

According to Police Chief Lisa Davis, the gunman "put his flashers on, rolled down his model and began utilizing a pistol shooting retired of his car windows, striking patrons of the barroom that were connected the patio and that were successful beforehand of the bar." 

From there, the gunman drove westbound connected Sixth Street to Wood Street, parked his conveyance and exited holding a firearm portion continuing to sprout astatine pedestrians. He ne'er entered the bar. 

The gunman was past changeable and killed by constabulary astatine the scene. 

The FBI has since revealed the shooting was a imaginable enactment of terrorism.

"Obviously, it's inactive mode excessively aboriginal successful the process to find an nonstop motivation, but determination were indicators connected the taxable and successful his conveyance that bespeak imaginable nexus to terrorism," Alex Dorn, acting peculiar cause successful complaint of the FBI’s San Antonio Field Office, said astatine a property league Sunday.

"Again, it's inactive excessively aboriginal to marque a determination connected that. That's wherefore we are investigating it precise intimately with our partners with Austin constabulary department," Dorn added.

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Authorities investigating extracurricular of Buford's barroom connected March 1, 2026, successful Austin, Texas. Two radical are dead, and 14 others hospitalized pursuing a wide shooting aboriginal Sunday morning. The gunman was besides changeable and killed. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Dorn besides said the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force has been deployed to assistance successful the investigation. 

"We're conscionable astatine this constituent prepared to accidental that it was perchance an enactment of terrorism," helium said.

As the probe unfolds, Harrington’s loved ones proceed to mourn the nonaccomplishment of the assemblage pupil and fraternity member. 

Texas House of Representatives Speaker Dustin Burrows penned an affectional connection to societal media, revealing Harrington was the brother-in-law of a subordinate of his governmental team. 

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Federal agents comb the country of a imaginable violent onslaught shooting successful Austin, Texas. (Aaron E. Martinez/Getty Images)

"From each accounts, Ryder was precisely the benignant of young antheral who made a quality without adjacent trying—full of life, loyal to his friends, arrogant to beryllium a Red Raider and a Texan, and idiosyncratic who showed up for the radical astir him," Burrows wrote. 

Additionally, Chancellor Emeritus of the Texas Tech University System and erstwhile Texas legislator Kent Hance besides condemned the convulsive enactment and offered his condolences. 

"Ryder Harrington was murdered successful Austin by a terrorist," Hance posted to X. "Ryder was an outstanding young man. I’ve talked to respective radical who knew him and everyone had thing but praise for him and his character."

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Texas Tech University did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

"Ryder had a uncommon quality to genuinely bask beingness to marque radical laugh, to marque moments consciousness bigger, and to marque mean days unforgettable," the tribute added. "If anyone embodied what it meant to unrecorded afloat and emotion deeply, it was Ryder."

Fox News Digital's Landon Mion contributed to this report. 

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