Off-duty APD officer shoots suspect in Burnet County road-rage incident

BURNET COUNTY (KXAN) — A off-duty Austin Police officer is safe after engaging in a Thursday night gun battle with a road-rage suspect eight miles east of Marble Falls in Burnet County.
According to Capt. Chris Jett of the Burnet County Sheriff’s Office, the unnamed APD officer was driving home just after 10 p.m. in the 12200 block of FM 1431 when he came across a man firing a gun into a vehicle. The officer exchanged gunfire with the man before shooting him. The suspect was found un