Editor’s Note: The video above features coverage of the shooting from Oct. 1.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A witness told police a shooting in northwest Austin last week interrupted a fight about paying for damages after a parking lot fender bender.
A 17-year-old died and two others were hurt in the shooting in a parking lot in the 12000 block of Research Boulevard on Oct. 1, police shared at the time. They first got a call about a shooting at 2:44 a.m. and found Nathan Ockleberry in the parking lot. He was pronounced dead at the scene less than 20 minutes later.
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A white Chevrolet pickup truck backed into a Nissan Altima as it was parking, according to one of the people inside the Nissan. That person told police her friends asked the truck driver for money because of the damages, and a fight broke out when he didn’t want to pay.
The truck driver told police he saw people outside the Nissan as he turned into the parking lot, then saw the car follow him. They collided when he tried to back into a parking spot. He told police when they approached, he “said he didn’t have money but would use insurance,” and added one of the people in the Nissan came up to him and “said things like ‘I’ll run your pockets’ ‘Give me your money,’” according to the affidavit.