At Least Two People Injured in a Shooting at the Voodoo Room on East Sixth Street on Halloween Night, Police Say
Austin police responded to a shooting/stabbing hotshot call at 419 E. Sixth St. around 1:37 a.m., KXAN reported. Police have not yet released the victims' conditions or any suspect information in the reporting read Sunday morning.
At least two people were injured Halloween night in a shooting at a downtown Austin bar, KXAN reported. According to the Austin Police Department, officers responded to a shooting/stabbing hotshot call at the Voodoo Room at 419 E. Sixth St. around 1:37 a.m.
The call came on the busiest night of the year for the Sixth Street entertainment district, with the street closed to cars and tens of thousands downtown for Halloween — the crowd conditions this station covered in its Halloween safety files on Saturday. A hotshot call is APD's classification for a rapidly escalating incident involving an immediate threat.
KXAN's reporting, as read Sunday morning, did not include the victims' conditions, whether anyone was taken into custody, or what led to the shooting, and police had not released those details in the source read this run. This story will be updated when APD releases them. The incident is separate from the March 1, 2026 attack outside Buford's on West Sixth Street, an older case whose accounts recirculated online again this weekend.
