Hours after police identified the suspect in a downtown mass shooting on March 1, Lillian Brady sent an urgent email to a detective in the Travis County Sheriff’s Office. Her subject line: “That’s him!!”
“The shooter was my assaulter,” Brady wrote, the latest in a long string of communications about an investigation into her alleged assault last year at Gigafactory Texas.
The next day, Sheriff’s Detective Joshua Garrison called to tell her the case would be closed because the person suspected of assaulting her had died. Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in the shooting, had been fatally shot by police responding to the scene on West Sixth Street.
She’d been seeking his identity since late December, wishing to bring him to justice…