When Austin police SWAT officers deploy, they can look intimidating. Team members wear beefed-up ballistic vests and armor, and they carry specialized weapons beyond what patrol officers typically ...

A Texas SWAT officer was killed in a shootout with a barricaded gunman in which the two hostages whom the married cop was trying to rescue were also shot dead. The death early Saturday of Senior ...

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Jorge Pastore has been named as the Austin SWAT police officer who was shot and killed on Saturday morning, according to a statement made by Austin Police Department interim Chief Robin Henderson.

A barricaded gunman holding three hostages in Austin, Texas, shot and killed a SWAT officer early Saturday before being killed at the scene, authorities said. Two apparent victims were also found ...

A deranged man barricaded in a house in Austin, Texas with two hostages opened fire on police officers and killed a member of a SWAT team. The violence unfolded in South Austin around 4 a.m. when ...

Austin SWAT officers, Michael Ridge, 36, left, Leighton Radtke, 34, middle left, Lt. Katrina Pruitt, 54, and Sgt. Brannon Ellsworth, 45, right, were involved in the ...

Three people are dead after a hostage situation unfolded in Austin, Texas, early Saturday, including a responding SWAT officer who was shot and killed in a shootout with the suspect, police said.

AUSTIN, Texas — A hourslong hostage standoff ... Hours into the standoff with Narumanchi, SWAT officers breached the offices and found both Dodson and Narumanchi dead from apparent gunshot ...

Jorge Pastore has been identified as the SWAT officer who was shot and killed Saturday morning, according to a statement from interim Austin Police Chief Robin Henderson. Pastore joined the ...