Police in Texas have released videos and audio from this weekend's shooting in Austin, showing the moment violence erupted outside a popular beer garden downtown.
The video shows the gunman shooting at victims, as well as the three officers who fired at the gunman. The investigation continues, while Travis County District Attorney José Garza said in a letter to Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis on Wednesday that his review of the three officers' actions was closed.
"After the review, it is clear and indisputable that at the time the officers were responding to an active shooting in a mass casualty situation, and that the subject of the shooting was in the act of using unlawful deadly force," Garza wrote in the letter, which was shared with NBC News. "For these reasons and based on the facts now known to us, we are closing our review and no action will be taken."
The videos show various angles and moments from the deadly shooting, including a video from a parked vehicle clearly showing the shooter as he takes aim at a pedestrian.
Body camera video from the two officers shows the moment the gunman was shot and collapsed to the floor, as well as people hiding from him outside the bar. Security video shows the shooter opening fire on pedestrians before police intercept him.
Garza was responding to online speculation and criticism that he would charge the officers, some of it from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
"This…is…INSANE," Cruz, a Republican, wrote Tuesday on X.
Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock wrote Tuesday on X that while there are no criminal charges against the officers, "the DA seems to still intend to put this before a grand jury where anything can happen as the DA controls that process and does allow APD involvement."
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, also weighed in on the speculation, writing on X: "These police officers are heroes who saved lives. Whatever the DA does, I will have the final say in the fate of these police officers."
Garza pushed back against the online speculation in a separate statement Wednesday, calling the claims "false."
"These officers are heroes, and it should go without saying that my office is not seeking any charges and would not seek charges," he said. "The accounts to the contrary are false, intentionally false, and are being peddled for obvious political purposes."
The shooting took place outside Buford’s, a popular beer garden in downtown Austin. Authorities identified the gunman as Ndiaga Diagne, 53, a Senegalese national and naturalized U.S. citizen who was living in Pflugerville.
He wore a sweatshirt that said "Property of Allah" and a shirt underneath with an Iranian-flag theme, according to four law enforcement officials.
Authorities are working to determine a possible motive, including whether the attack was an act of terrorism.
The attack came a day after the U.S. launched strikes against Iran.
