Officials say there have been separate shooting incidents within the same area in downtown Austin and there are multiple victims. The Austin Police Department posted on its verified Facebook and Twitter pages that there was an active shooting incident downtown just before 3 a.m. About a half-hour later police said the scenes of the shootings were secure. Police had warned people to stay away from downtown. This article was first posted at 1:10 a.m. ALSOWithout a parachute, sky diver plummets into net from 25,000 feetSqueezed garment factories use check cashing services to mask true wages, workers sayIt's billionaire versus billionaire as Mark Cuban targets Donald Trump for Hillary ClintonUPDATES:1:30 a.m.: Updated with news of separate shootings.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 31, 2016 08:18 UTC