Another Black Man Shot & Killed by Austin Police: APD says Kevin Brown had a Gun
Monday, June 4, 2007 at 11:55PM 
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AUSTIN Police shot and killed Kevin Brown, 25, during a pursuit Sunday. The shooting sparked upset and distrust in the East Austin community where it happened. The Travis County medical examiner's report says the victim of Sunday's officer shooting was shot several times. Officials said that the preliminary cause of Kevin Brown's death is homicide. The shooting happened just after 4 a.m. Sunday at the Elm Ridge Apartments on East 12th street. Investigators say Brown ran from officers after a confrontation at nearby Chester's Lounge. Officers chased him to the apartment complex where the shooting happened. The officer who fired the fatal shots, Sgt. Michael Olsen, has been an Austin police officer for 12 years. He's on restricted duty pending the investigation. That's customary when an officer fires his gun while on duty. Austin Police confirmed this afternoon that detectives did recover a gun at the scene of the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Kevin Brown by an Austin Police Officer on Sunday. Brown had fled from officers when they approached him outside of Chester’s Lounge on East 12th Street. An officer on patrol in the area had been told that Brown had a weapon. “We are processing the weapon, the handgun, that we actually found located at the site,” Assistant Police Chief David Carter said Monday afternoon. “We continue to find witnesses and locate witnesses.” Austin Community Access TV video shows Brown running from police as two officers try and approach him outside Chester's Club, near 12th Street. Brown tore through the chain link fence on the backside of Chester’s. Police officers followed him. “Nowadays it's scary, especially in East Austin” George Jett said. “Being a black man, it is scary. I have to watch my back and watch what I do.” The department is already under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. [MORE] and [MORE] and [MORE]
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