Editor's note: Austin police said on Wednesday that the victim was a 21-year-old male. A press release sent on Thursday revealed the victim was actually 18 years old.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Police have arrested the man suspected of shooting and killing an 18-year-old man at a gas station in Northwest Austin on Wednesday, June 27.
Stanley Earl Pates, 24, was arrested Friday and charged with murder. He was booked into Williamson County Jail.
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Police received the call about the shooting at approximately 5:01 p.m. APD said the shooting appears to have occurred in a gas station parking lot located in the 13000 block of Pond Springs Road near McNeil Drive, U.S. Highway 183 and Hunters Chase Drive.
At 5:12 p.m., ATCEMS pronounced the victim, later identified as Devon Gross, dead at the scene, APD said in a media briefing. EMS officials said treated another man in his 20s for minor non-life threatening injuries and transported him to a local hospital.
Austin police said an autopsy report determined Gross died from a gunshot wound.
Police originally told KVUE one person was detained and there were no other suspects. APD later said in a tweet that one suspect was still at large.
According to APD, preliminary information suggests this was a targeted attack and not a random incident.
One man said he thought fireworks were going off and a woman who works nearby told KVUE she counted ten gunshots.
"It was close enough, I've been around guns my whole life, so I knew it was gunshots and they were close," she said. "Hearing that there was actually a homicide or a murder in this vicinity is very scary. All of my colleagues and I go in that Valero all the time to get gas or pick up snacks or get a soda or something."
Pates' bail is set at $500,000.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.