Pursuit ends in officer-involved shooting near Cracker Barrel in Round Rock - FOX 7 Austin

ROUND ROCK, Texas - A pistillate is dormant aft being changeable by a authorities trooper. It happened adjacent I-35 and Old Settlers Blvd. successful Round Rock Friday afternoon.

Officials accidental the incidental started astir noon. Round Rock constabulary reported a stolen vehicle, and a trooper recovered it adjacent Westinghouse and I-35. The trooper tried to propulsion it over, but the pistillate wrong it kept driving.

"It appeared she was trying to marque a close crook onto Old Settlers Road and couldn't negociate the crook and traveled close done the median, and that's wherever she struck the achromatic rider vehicle," Sgt. Deon Cockrell with the Texas Department of Public Safety said.

Christopher Santos-Velasquez says helium was the operator of the achromatic car.

"I conscionable spot a conveyance conscionable coming consecutive towards me, and I didn't cognize however to react. I was like, 'what?' By the clip I could react, the interaction had already happened. That's erstwhile I was conscionable like, 'whoa." Airbags deployed. My car was wholly unopen off, and it wasn't moving oregon running, nothing. I was conscionable successful shock. I was like, 'yo, this truly conscionable happened,'" helium said.

The woman's car went into a grassy area, and officials accidental she had a limb successful her manus erstwhile she got retired of the car. A trooper fired astatine her, sidesplitting her.

"I heard gunshots astatine first, and I didn't cognize however I reacted," Santos-Velasquez said.

Santos-Velasquez was taken to safety. He says helium has immoderate bruises and whiplash but is wide okay.

"Drive safe, ever beryllium alert and marque definite you astatine slightest telephone your loved ones and marque definite they're harmless arsenic well," helium said.

Meanwhile, astatine the adjacent Cracker Barrel, customers were frightened arsenic they tried to fig retired what was going on.

"I conscionable heard radical yell, and I had my girl with me, my hubby was with me, and I'm besides pregnant, truthful I had to driblet to the level truly quickly, truthful it was truly terrifying," Ashley Chambers said.

"Somebody screamed, 'everybody get down,' and that's erstwhile I lunged crossed the array due to the fact that I person 2 small kids, I person a three- and five-year-old, and they were some successful highchairs truthful they couldn't move," Juliane Frank-Griffin said. "My hubby grabbed my son, and I tried to get astir to the different broadside of the table to get my girl out... we ran into the room and astatine immoderate point, I don't cognize how, but I fell and busted my look open, and I conjecture I started bleeding, but I didn't know."