AUSTIN (KXAN) – The suspect involved in the shooting at the Austin Public Library on Saturday is accused of another shooting on a Capital Metro bus earlier that day, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Austin police arrested Harold Newton Keene, 55, shortly after the shooting at the library, which occurred around noon on Saturday. One person sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the event. Before that shooting, Keene was accused of shooting another person in a bus incident after reportedly pointing his gun at a child.
Keene is booked in Travis County Jail on 10 charges, including three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Attorney information was not available for Keene, as of Monday. We will update this if that changes.
Upon reviewing library security camera footage, police identified an older Black man wearing a grey hoodie leaving the bathroom where the shooting took place shortly after the library victim fled from it, according to the affidavit.
Police said the library suspect appeared to be the same person involved in the shooting on a CapMetro bus several hours earlier. Police responded to multiple 911 calls at around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday.
According to court documents, Keene fired one bullet at a person who was on the bus. That bullet grazed the victim’s hip.
Before the shooting, the victim said he was riding the bus with an older Black man who appeared to be “mentally unstable.” The victim stated that a man pulled out a pistol and pointed it at another passenger and her daughter. The victim told police he confronted the suspect, who started to eat what appeared to be crystal methamphetamine, according to the affidavit.
“[The victim] advised the suspect began to ‘trip out,’ at which time [the victim] exited the bus,” read the affidavit.
Police said the victim told the bus driver to hit the “panic button” and then exited the bus. When he turned around, he “observed the Black male was now at the front [of the bus] with the gun pointed at him. [The victim] advised the black male fired a single round, which grazed his left hip.”
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