Update 11:26 a.m.: Austin police have identified the suspect who was killed: 61-year-old Robert Francis Mesch. Mesch was armed and suicidal, police say. Two-year police department veteran Daniel Hannah was the officer involved in the shooting, and he has since been placed on leave as a routine procedure. Police Chief Art Acevedo calls the shooting a "tragedy for everyone involved."
The Austin Police Department says an officer shot and killed a man in his early 60s. The shooting happened just before 4 a.m. near Bill Miller Bar-B-Q on West Slaughter.
Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo says a woman called police around 3:30 a.m. to say that her husband was threatening to kill himself and threatened her life as well. Two officers pursued the man in his tan pickup. Police say when he got out of the car near West Slaughter, the suspect was carrying a gun. The officer fired several rounds at the man. He was pronounced dead soon after.
Below, you can listen to the full audio of Acevedo's press conference from earlier this morning.
The officer who shot the man has been with the Austin Police Department for two years. He was put on administrative leave with pay, which is standard procedure when a police officer is involved in a shooting.
Police have closed Slaughter Lane west of I-35 while the scene is under investigation, and suggest northbound commuters in the area take William Cannon Drive to head north this morning.