AUSTIN, Texas — Austin police have identified a man accused in a weekend shooting at the Austin Central Library and linked him to a separate shooting hours earlier on a city bus.

Court documents state that 55-year-old Harold Newton Keene allegedly shot a person inside a sixth-floor bathroom at the library on Saturday, Oct. 25, before escaping on a CapMetro bus.

According to the Austin Police Department (APD), officers had responded around 1:30 a.m. the same day to another shooting on a CapMetro bus in the 3200 block of Guadalupe Street. A passenger told police Keene had been making strange comments, took what appeared to be drugs and threatened riders with a gun. The passenger said after he told the driver to stop and got off the bus, Keene fired at him, grazing his hip. Keene reported

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