Austin Shooting: Former sheriff’s deputy Stephen Broderick arrested
Austin police have arrested a former sheriff’s deputy suspected in the shooting rampage near an apartment complex in Northwest Austin. The suspect in the killing of 3 people was taken into custody Monday without incident, police said.
Police responding to a 911 call from an address near Arboretum Oaks Apartments and an upscale shopping district found three gunshot victims at the scene. An emergency medical team attempted CPR before pronouncing them dead.
Stephen Nicholas Broderick, 41, was arrested along a rural highway in nearby Manor. Authorities received two 911 calls around 7:30 a.m. about a man walking along the road with a pistol in his waistband.
Broderick, a former Travis County Sheriff’s Office detective, was one of two officers involved in shooting and critically injuring an elderly man. He was placed on administrative leave with pay pending an investigation. The former property crimes detective resigned after his arrest last year on child sexual assault charges.
The shooting in the Austin shopping district appears to have stemmed from a domestic situation. The targeted victims were two Hispanic women and a Black man. Two of the victims were identified by the Elgin school district Alyssa Broderick, who left Elgin High last year, and Willie Simmons, who was a senior there.
