The recent shooting is on CNN.com (I imagine the same for TV), a minor front-page story on The Guardian and nowhere to be found with the New York Times (we’re not on a coast with a Spago’s).
Anyway, things are fine. The Mexican Consulate is three blocks from Waterloo Records and it didn’t affect the goings on for Black Friday. While I was driving in, I casually turned on KUT (NPR here) to catch the weather and the newscaster mentioned someone being shot in front of the APD’s HQ, he may have had a bomb strapped around his waist and the cops were currently investigating his north Austin home.
I accidentally drove by the other sites the gunman shot at. I saw all the cops, FBI and other Homeland (nee Fatherland) Security types standing around yakking. A couple photographers shooting pictures. I figured they were just staking out the Consulate, new Fed Courthouse and a bank office in case he was part of a cell (it is the 150th anniversary of Confederate saboteurs tried to burn down New York and Austin wasn’t really dedicated to the Secession). Nope, he took shots there. I can’t vouch for his motivations but if he fired at the Mexican Consulate, I take it he had a problem with the Executive Order on immigration; never mind that many Latin American immigrants lately are from nations south of Mexico, not Mexicans.
The only details they confirmed were the shooter being in his fifties (appearance or ID on him) and white. Once again proving how most attacks in America are carried out by homegrown terrorists. The list is quite long too.