AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Police Department says their emergency alert system failed, after prematurely downgrading a "Shelter in Place" alert just less than an hour of it being issued, while a suspect who shot an officer was still at large.

Officer involved shooting near Zilker Park

On Wednesday morning at around 4 a.m., while APD officers were working a park curfew check around Zilker Park, they came across a car that had been reported stolen. When a tow truck came to take the car, officers say a man and woman walked out of a wooded area nearby.

An APD officer called out to those people but the man ended up raising a gun and shooting the woman standing in front of him. The shots also hit the APD officer, who was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover. APD said the woman w

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