AUSTIN, Texas — A man died Wednesday afternoon after a security guard struck him at a downtown Austin bank, police said. Investigators determined the security guard acted in self-defense.
Austin Police Department officers responded at 3:45 p.m. to a disturbance call at Plains Capital Bank, 201 W. Fifth St. Officers arrived to find a man lying on his back and unresponsive. Officers began life-saving measures until Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services arrived, but the man was pronounced dead at 4:46 p.m.
According to investigators, the man, who used a wheelchair, had entered the bank on multiple previous occasions and harassed employees. When security asked him to leave Wednesday, he punched a security guard in the face. The guard struck him back, causing him to fall to the ground…