AUSTIN
Three people killed in crashes
Three men were killed in separate crashes Friday night and Saturday morning on Austin roads.
Austin police say a motorcyclist was traveling south on Manchaca Road near Old Manchaca Road in South Austin about 10 p.m. Friday when an oncoming Chevrolet Cavalier turned left and collided with the motorcyclist.
The man, whose identity was not released by police, was pronounced dead at the scene.
About an hour later, a man walking in the northbound lanes of Interstate 35 near Woodland Avenue was killed when he was struck by a red 2005 Dodge pickup, police said.
The pedestrian, whose identity has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the truck has not been charged with a crime.
Just before 7:30 a.m. Saturday, a man was killed near the intersection of Research and North Lamar boulevards when his motorcycle struck the concrete median at a high rate of speed, police said.
The motorcyclist, whose identity was not released by police, was ejected and pronounced dead at the scene.
— Esther Robards-Forbes and Sam Womack, American-Statesman
NORTH AUSTIN
A man was shot twice in the abdomen during an attempted robbery at a Northeast Austin apartment complex Saturday, police said.
The man in his mid-40s, whose identity was not released, was working on his car about 12:50 a.m. in the Reinli Arms Apartments near Interstate 35 and Reinli Street, police said.
Two men in a gray sedan got out of their vehicle and demanded the man's wallet, the official said.
The official said it was not known if the man refused to give his wallet, but the men then shot the victim twice in the abdomen.
Witnesses told police that the suspects ran back to their vehicle and fled the scene, according to police. The suspects remained at-large Saturday night, police said.
A police official said the victim was alert and conscious when he was taken to the University Medical Center Brackenridge. His condition was not immediately available.
— Sam Womack, American-Statesman
TRAVIS COUNTY
Officials identified 36-year-old Cuauhtemoc Huerta as the man killed Thursday morning in an 18-wheeler crash on the Texas 130 tollway in northeastern Travis County.
Huerta was a passenger in the cab of the truck when it left the roadway and struck a pillar off of the northbound tollway lanes near Gregg Manor Road about 9:25 a.m., according to an official with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The driver of the 18-wheeler, David Fuentes, 50, was taken to University Medical Center Brackenridge, the official said. His condition was not immediately known.
— Sam Womack, American-Statesman
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