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<h6 class="headline entry-title"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Sus</strong></span>p<span style="color: #000000;"><strong>ect in Austin shooting spree had ties to Texas politics </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline entry-title"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Authorities believe political consultant Charles Wilson Curry Jr, is behind a string of shootings and a homicide this week in the Austin area </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline entry-title"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Charles Curry Jr, 29, was arrested Wednesday after Austin PD named him as the suspect in four separate shootings that injured two victims Wednesday</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline entry-title"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>He is also the suspect behind the shooting death of Christian Meroney, 32, on Monday</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline entry-title"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>He is currently held in the Travis County Jail charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline entry-title"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Authorities plan to add murder char</strong><strong>ge </strong></span></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296129" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Charles-Curry-1-1.jpg" alt="Charles Curry 1.jpg" width="736" height="920" /><strong>Police believe Charles Curry, [photo]</strong><strong>, is behind a string of Wednesday afternoon shootings and a homicide that occurred on Monday.</strong></h6>
<p>Austin police believe a 29-year-old man is behind a Monday homicide and a string of shootings that occurred on Wednesday afternoon.</p>
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<p>On Thursday, the Austin Police Department named Charles Curry as the suspect in four separate shootings that injured two victims a day earlier. Police said he is also the suspect behind the shooting death of Christian Meroney, 32.<br />
Police said Curry allegedly drove around in his car and shot at victims with a handgun.<br />
He was arrested Wednesday evening at the apartment complex where Meroney was found dead with a gunshot shot wound.</p>
<h5><strong><br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296136" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Christian-Meroney-2.jpg" alt="Christian Meroney 2.JPG" width="867" height="615" />homicide victim: Christian Meroney, 32, was the one fatality during Curry&#8217;s shooting rampage. Victim and shooter lived in the same apt complex, but no link between the men has been discovered</strong></h5>
<p>Around 1pm on Wednesday, July 11, Curry reportedly failed in his attempt to purchase a gun suppressor when the clerk at an Austin shooting Range refused to sell the suppressor because the prospective buyer was &#8220;acting very strangely&#8221;.<br />
An Hour later, he shot a 33-year-old Hispanic woman driving with her three children in the car, in the head. She was taken to the hospital with superficial injuries.<br />
Half an hour later, he made another shooing attempt, but no one was injured. Within two minutes , on a third try he shot a 25-year-old white female who was driving when a bullet entered her vehicle and hit her in the head. The glass also hit her face. She was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.<br />
His last attempt was at 2:40 pm, fortunately no injuries were reported.<br />
Later around 5pm on Wednesday cops were told by a witness that he saw a man get into a boat with a gun before his wife heard the shots.<br />
Austin police say with the help of surveillance video from the first shots fired case, they were able to identify the suspect&#8217;s vehicle. Witnesses and victims told police the shooter was driving a white Chevy Tahoe.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-296133" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Charles-Wilson-Curry-Jr-3.jpg" alt="Charles Wilson Curry Jr 3" width="650" height="650" /><strong>Charles Wilson Curry Jr [right],went on a murderous three day shooting rampage in Austin, Texas this week</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-296135" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Charles-Wilson-Curry-Jr-6.jpg" alt="Charles Wilson Curry Jr 6.jpg" width="672" height="672" /><strong>Charles Wilson Curry Jr&#8217;s L</strong>inkedIn Page Says He Had a Background in Finance &; Politics &; Facebook Photos Show Him With a Firearm</h6>
<p>Police also found Curry was the owner of the boat the shooter was observed boarding.<br />
With the information they had from the July 9 homicide, police started making the connection that the shooting spree could be related.<br />
A ballistic test was ordered on the evidence collected at the homicide scene compared to the various shootings and they came back a match.<br />
Police said the motive for both the shootings and homicide are unknown.<br />
Charles Wilson Curry Jr.<strong> </strong>is currently in the Travis County Jail charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after police arrested him at the Post South Lamar apartments Wednesday afternoon. Records show Curry lives at the Post South Lamar apartments.<br />
The Austin Police Department says it plans on filing a murder charge soon.<br />
A quick look at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-curry-50842baa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Curry&#8217;s Linkedin profile</a> shows that the Vanderbilt University grad claimed to work for Speaker of the House Joe Straus and Representative Lyle Larson.<br />
The profile describes him as having a &#8220;financial background with a current focus in politics.&#8221;<br />
He also claimed to work as a policy analyst for the Texas Senate.<br />
The president for the consulting firm that represented Speaker Straus, and who Curry worked for, <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/what-we-know-about-the-south-austin-homicide-shooting-spree-suspect/1298486349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told KXAN that</a> the homicide suspect &#8220;exaggerated his LinkedIn profile and was never a campaign coordinator for his firm.&#8221;<br />
Curry is being held at the Travis County Jail with charges of aggravated assault with a</p>
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Suspect in Austin shooting spree had ties to Texas politics – Political consultant Charles Wilson Curry Jr, killed one person, injured two others
