{"id":67955,"date":"2026-03-03T16:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/third-victim-dies-as-austin-bar-shooting-investigated-as-potential-terrorism-act\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:59:05","slug":"third-victim-dies-as-austin-bar-shooting-investigated-as-potential-terrorism-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/third-victim-dies-as-austin-bar-shooting-investigated-as-potential-terrorism-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Third victim dies as Austin bar shooting investigated as potential terrorism act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Pederson, 30, had been on life support after weekend attack which left more than a dozen others wounded<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Minnesota-based mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter has been named as the third victim to die in the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/02\/austin-bar-shooting-investigation-potential-terrorism\">mass shooting<\/a> at an Austin bar being investigated as a potential act of terrorism in retaliation for US airstrikes in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The death of 30-year-old Jorge Pederson was announced by the Austin police department on Monday evening. Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/texas-tech-student-identified-victim-austin-bar-shooting-rcna261317\">told<\/a> NBC News that Pederson had been on life support after the attack, which left more than a dozen others wounded and ended with officers fatally shooting the gunman.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/richardluscombe\">Richard Luscombe<\/a> contributed reporting<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/03\/austin-bar-shooting-victims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Pederson, 30, had been on life support after weekend attack which left more than a dozen others wounded Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A Minnesota-based mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter has been named as the third victim to die in the recent mass shooting &#8230; <a title=\"Third victim dies as Austin bar shooting investigated as potential terrorism act\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/third-victim-dies-as-austin-bar-shooting-investigated-as-potential-terrorism-act\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Third victim dies as Austin bar shooting investigated as potential terrorism act\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}