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Anthony Marquis Franklin, age 31
Around 11:33 pm Jan. 15, multiple calls to 911, within seconds of each other, described "a man with a gun and gunshots fired in the downtown area" the callers provided various locations in and around West Sixth Street. One caller said a shooter was near Lavaca and Fifth streets and that a man had been shot, while another "described a chaotic scene with people running in the 300 block of West Sixth Street." Officers first arrived on the scene at 11:35 p.m. and began searching for the man with a gun, based on descriptions given to them by 911 operators. Within minutes, police found a man who had been shot, and he began speaking with the officers. He was later taken by Austin-Travis County EMS medics to a hospital, where he was treated and discharged.
Around 11:43 pm three officers in a police vehicle in the area saw a man, later identified by police as Franklin, who matched the description of the shooter. According to police, the approaching officers, while calling out to Franklin, saw he had a gun. The officers ordered Franklin to drop the gun, but he instead began to run westbound on West Sixth Street and then northbound on Colorado Street. One officer left the vehicle and began to run after Franklin, while the other two followed in the vehicle. Police said Franklin continued to ignore the officers' orders to drop the gun and show his hands. Within seconds, all three officers fired their department-issued firearms at Mr. Franklin, striking him. He was taken by EMS medics to the hospital, where he later died at 12:30 a.m., police said.
https://gunmemorial.org/2023/01/15/anthony-marquis-franklin
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