Innocent Man Released After Battousai Helps Capture Gunman 3/20/2016

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• published: 21 Mar 2016
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I was told that they did capture the gun man after I gave them the description. A person like this should have no business owning a gun. Firing into a crowd is reckless and this guy needed to be off the streets. Also APD had the wrong guy detained. I had a moral obligation to help clear him and give the correct description of the gunman. In the first few seconds you can see that the guy in the blue & white jacket had a handgun in his front right pocket. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/suspected-shooter-arrested-opening-fire-sxsw-article-1.2570813 AUSTIN--Several people are in custody Sunday after police responded to two incidents of shots fired calls in the early morning hours on the last day of South by Southwest. Police said the first incident happened around 1:00 Sunday morning on East 6th Street. 25-year-old ACC student, Philip Turner, caught it all on camera. Turner was there as part of Copwatch, a group that films police.He said he saw the man with the handgun. "I looked and I saw he has a handgun. He was motioning it and when things got really hectic, he was the one charging in. The next thing you know you hear shots fired," Turner said. The video showed some people in the packed street arguing but Turner didn't know what about. The argument escalated and eventually led to pushing. A few seconds later, two shots were fired. "Things got really crazy after that," Turner said. Officers quickly drew their guns and searched for the gunman. But Turner said police initially got the wrong guy. That's when he had to step in. "Hey, that guy over there has the gun. He's wearing the blue sweatshirt," said Truner, recalling what he told police.. Turner said he showed police his video and identified the gunman. The alleged gunman is 22-year-old Rondarius Spicer, according to our news partners at the Austin American-Statesman. "There's a lot of animosity between cop watchers and cops and this here is a prime example of what could happen if cops let people film, photograph, things that officers may not catch," Turner said. About an hour and a half after this call, police responded to the second shots fired call of the morning. Around 2:30 am, police caught three teenagers driving around in East Austin and firing shots into the air with a stolen shotgun near the Johnny Morris Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd area. All three are in custody.