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The Austin Police Department released bodycam video from a deadly shooting involving officers after a man led officers on a chase, then a carjacking spree and an apartment break-in in northwest Austin last week.
It happened on Thursday, November 7 at around 8:47 a.m. at the MAA Canyon Creek apartments at 9501 N FM 620.
Police said the incident was a culmination of several crimes that began at 3:11 a.m. when a Bee Cave police officer spotted an orange Ford Ranger truck traveling at a high rate of speed westbound in the 12500 block of Hwy. 71.
After turning on his emergency lights, the vehicle stopped. When the officer stepped out of his car, the driver sped off, turned northbound onto FM 620, and continued speeding, driving northbound in the southbound lanes through the City of Lakeway.
The BCPD officer ended the pursuit out of an abundance of caution for other drivers and alerted APD that the subject could be in the area of FM 620 and FM 2222.
“It was obvious at the time that the suspect wasn’t going to stop and my officer at that time was all by himself so he decided to terminate the pursuit,” said Bee Cave Police Chief Brian Jones.
At 3:14 a.m., the Travis County Sheriff’s Office was alerted of the suspect, later identified as Zachary Labrie, 27, fleeing a traffic stop but the deputy lost sight of the vehicle and the pursuit ended.
While Labrie escaped, Bee Cave Police ran his license plates, making contact with his father, “His son had told him that he was involved in a police pursuit, he was armed, and he had made some suicidal statements to his father,” said Chief Jones.
At 3:38 a.m., Labrie was seen on Ring doorbell camera footage pulling into the MAA Canyon Creek apartments in the orange Ford Ranger truck.
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At the apartment complex, Labrie was seen exiting the truck wearing a mask, carrying a shotgun, and approaching an apartment’s front door. Then proceeded to kick in the front door.
Austin Police said the apartment belonged to Labrie’s ex-girlfriend, a woman who he had a violent history with, “That includes some strangulation that he perpetrated against her, she was not home at the time, she was actually out of town out of fear that she had,” said APD Chief Lisa Davis.
