AUSTIN, Texas — A man has been arrested in connection to a fatal shooting late Friday night in southeast Austin, according to the Austin Police Department.
APD said on Friday, Austin 911 received a call around 10:15 p.m. that a person had been shot at 4600 Elmont Drive. Upon arriving on the scene, APD officers located two men that had been shot while sitting in a vehicle. The suspect was not on the scene.
Austin-Travis County EMS arrived and attended to both men, but the driver of the vehicle – later identified as 20-year-old Adrian Lamar Haynes – was pronounced dead at the scene. The front passenger, who called 911, was transported to a local hospital, where police said he was in stable condition Saturday morning.
APD homicide investigators and crime scene personnel arrived and began to investigate the incident. They learned that the two victims had been contacted by the suspect, who wished to purchase a small amount of marijuana. The suspect – identified as 21-year-old Roger Chimney – arrived to purchase the marijuana and, at one point during the meeting, shot both victims and left the scene, according to APD.
A warrant was issued for Chimney's arrest, and he was subsequently found and arrested by the Lonestar Fugitive Task Force. He is currently in custody at the Travis County Jail.
The Travis County Medical Examiner's Office determined Haynes' official cause of death was gunshot wounds and the manner of death was homicide.
Anyone who has video of the incident is asked to call the APD Homicide Tip Line at 512-477-3588 or Crime Stoppers at 512-472-8477.
This is Austin's third homicide of 2021.
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