A Texas District Court Judge found that the gunman who carried out the deadly attack on Austin’s 6th Street bar district Sunday had a “history or pattern of committing family violence,” according to a decree the judge issued in a 2022 divorce case.
The judge made that ruling in September 2022 after court records showed Ndigae Diagne’s wife filed for divorce. She alleged in a petition that her husband was “guilty of cruel treatment toward Petitioner of a nature that renders living together insupportable.”
NBC 5 Investigates obtained the documents through a request to the Bexar County court. They include Diagne’s handwritten response to his wife’s allegations. In the note he writes, “I totally disagree and quite frankly feel insulted by the many false statements in the filing.” Diagne signed the note using the address of the home in Pflugerville, where the FBI conducted a search following the shooting on Sunday…