Suspect faces murder charge
Woman was fatally stabbed before police shot, injured man.
A 50-year-old critically injured in an Austin police shooting last week now faces a first-degree murder charge in connection with a fatal stabbing, court documents show.
Aubrey Quentin Garrett was booked into the Travis County Jail on Monday with bail set at $1 million after police say he stabbed a woman to death in the courtyard of a Central Austin apartment complex Friday.
The attack only ended, according to an arrest affidavit, when veteran officer Alfredo Delvalle shot Garrett after he refused to obey Delvalle’s orders to drop the knife and continued to stab the woman, 43-year-old Andrea Faye Lindsey.
The incident was the first of two shootings by Austin police officers over three days last weekend — and at least the ninth police shooting this year. Four of those shootings have been fatal.
Authorities have said that four of the people involved in the previous police shootings this year either suffered from mental illness or appeared to be under the influence of drugs.
The affidavit, made public Monday, provided new details about the bloody scene Friday morning at the two-story complex in the 5000 block of Lynnwood Street.
Garrett’s brother told police that Garrett and Lindsey had spent Thursday night at his apartment. He said he woke up early Friday to the sounds of Garrett yelling at Lindsey outside, the affidavit said.
He told officers that he went to investigate and saw Lindsey on the ground, bleeding badly as his brother stood over her with a knife, according to the affidavit. Garrett’s brother retreated into the apartment, locked the