ROUND ROCK, Texas — The Round Rock Police Department (RRPD) is releasing new information about the New Year’s Eve shooting that injured five people from Austin and Pflugerville. RRPD says all the shooting victims are under the age of seventeen.
Police say the violence broke out around 11:30 p.m. near a private New Year’s Eve party that was being held at a privately owned event center in the 1600 block of Chisholm Trail Road.
“We were all hanging out over here and then all of a sudden you just hear gunshots, boom, boom, boom,” said Samantha Sanchez, who lives near where the shooting occurred. “We were popping fireworks and waiting to bring in the new year and then we look, and there’s a million police officers, and people were screaming and it was very scary.”…