East Austin shooting: TCSO correctional officer, relative dead

The Travis County Sheriff's Office is investigating two deaths in East Austin.

The backstory:

According to the Travis County Sheriff's Office, on July 23, around 2:03 a.m., deputies responded to a check welfare call in the 8100 block of Dalmatian Lane. A relative reported that two people had been shot inside a home. 

When deputies arrived, they found two people with gunshot wounds. A man in his 20s was dead when they arrived, and a teen girl still had a faint pulse. She later died from her injuries. 

The man was a TCSO corrections officer. 

The sheriff's office said the two were related.

Deputies are investigating and said this was an isolated incident.

The Source: Information from Travis County Sheriff's Office and reporting by Jessica Rivera.

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