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Car with bullet hole found submerged in Lady Bird Lake pulled from the water

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Published  May 1, 2023 6:26am CDT
East Austin
FOX 7 Austin

Car found submerged in Lady Bird Lake pulled from the water

Austin police are investigating after finding a submerged vehicle while responding to a call about a shooting on Lady Bird Lake.

AUSTIN, Texas - A car with a bullet hole was pulled out of Lady Bird Lake on Monday.

Austin police said just before 2:30 a.m., on May 1, officers got a call about a shooting at the Festival Beach boat ramp east of I-35 near Chicon and Nash Hernandez Sr Rd.

When they arrived, they found a vehicle submerged in the lake. It took officials nearly 10 hours to pull that car out of the lake.

FULL VIDEO: Dive team searches water after car found submerged in Lady Bird Lake; recovers vehicle

Police say they were responding to a call about a shooting at the Festival Beach boat ramp when they found a car submerged in Lady Bird Lake.

When the sun came up, the dive team searched the water and the vehicle was recovered, but no one was found inside.

FOX 7 Austin reporter Amanda Ruiz saw investigators focusing in on a hole located on the back bumper of the car. It looked similar to a bullet hole.

Austin police refused to say if the shooting call was related to the car submerged.

Police say they will continue to investigate what happened.