A 45-year-old man was shot and killed by Austin police Sunday evening in an incident that began as a domestic assault near the Pennybacker Bridge over Lake Austin, according to Austin police.

The man, whose identity has not been released, was driving with a 44-year-old woman believed to be his wife along Loop 360 near the Pennybacker Bridge when a disturbance between the two occurred in the vehicle around 5:10 p.m., officials said. Police said the woman got out of the vehicle and ran along the highway until she entered another driver’s vehicle to escape her husband.

A video shared on social media then shows the man driving the wrong way on the southbound lanes of the highway, then crashing into the vehicle the woman had entered, Police Chief Brian Manley told reporters at the scene in West Austin.

Manley said the man fled to a wooded area.

At 5:51 p.m., police were informed that the man was texting his stepdaughter, telling her that “her mother was OK but that he was going to be killed by officers tonight,” Manley said.

A K9 officer then tracked the man into the woods. According to Manley, body camera footage reviewed by investigators show the officers ordering the man to drop his weapon. The man is then heard saying “I have a gun” and “I will shoot you,” Manley said.

At 6:21 p.m., the K9 officer and a patrol officer, one wielding a pistol and another wielding a rifle, began shooting the man while continuing to give commands. About 15 minutes later he was given CPR and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Manley said.

The woman was hospitalized in serious condition, he said, with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.

“This was, as you can tell, a very dynamic scene that took place over an hour, starting with some type of an assault in a vehicle that led to a crash and a foot pursuit,” Manley said.

The K9 officer is a seven-year veteran on the force and the patrol officer has been with Austin police for four years.

Both officers involved in the shooting will be placed on administrative duty during the course of an internal investigation, as per police protocol. A criminal investigation now underway will be carried out under the supervision of the Travis County district attorney’s office, police said.

“There’s a lot of work that still needs to be done,” Manley said.

Briefing regarding Officer involved shooting in the 5200 block of Capital of Texas Highwayhttps://t.co/oaSp9JZXdy

— Austin Police Dept (@Austin_Police)April 29, 2019



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Viewer video shows a wrong-way driver barreling into oncoming traffic near the Pennybacker Bridge in Austin. A woman is then seen running, being chased, and eventually grabbed by a man.pic.twitter.com/dU60GvtaBJ

— Tom Miller (@TomMillerKXAN)April 29, 2019