AUSTIN, Texas — A man has been charged with terroristic threat after allegedly “violently destroying” a Southeast Austin restaurant Sunday, overturning tables and throwing wine bottles through windows.
According to an arrest affidavit, officers responded to the 888 Pan Asian restaurant at 2400 E. Oltorf St. around 6:38 p.m. April 12 after multiple 911 callers reported a man destroying the restaurant. A second call reported shots fired, which investigators later determined was the sound of wine bottles exploding as Baron Heinrich, 30, threw them through the windows.
When officers arrived, patrons were scattered outside, crouching behind cover and running for safety, the affidavit said. Inside, officers had to “shuffle very slowly, moving tables and chairs out of the way” through broken glassware and plates covering the floor. A stainless-steel fountain drink machine had been ripped from the bar and flipped on its side, exposing a broken water line that was flooding the floor…