The two incidents are separated by decades and involve different circumstances, like weapons. KPRC 2 Investigates Mario Diaz also asked Martinez for his perspective on the Robb Elementary school shooting in Uvalde on May 24, 2022. Martinez took quick action to stop the shooting that day 56 years ago. “My thanks are never-ending for him stopping the situation that could have led to much more destruction and death than what we experienced,” said Littlefield. “He wanted the carnage to stop,” said Littlefield.Īdrian Littlefield was a 19-year-old newlywed that day. Related: The KPRC2 team was in Austin for the 50th anniversary of the attack - for the dedication of a memorial near the tower.įourteen dead, 31 injured, and Martinez ended the 96 minutes of terror. There, he fired at random people for 96 minutes, killing an additional eleven people and wounding 31 others before he was shot dead by Austin police officers.
But at the end of that blur, is the realization that you just killed. He fatally shot three people inside UT Austin's Main Building, then accessed the 28th-floor observation deck on the building's clock tower. “So, I fired one more round,” said Martinez. I was hitting him and then I was hollering at McCoy to shoot and McCoy finally shot and hit him with a shotgun,” said Martinez. Seconds later, another officer named Houston McCoy showed up to help. “As long as I stayed below that ledge, around the walkway, I was going to be okay.”
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They’d crack like that, you know,” said Martinez. Backup arrived just as Martinez was about to take actionĪs Martinez searched the tower, other people on the ground attempted to take out the sniper. Martinez then took off to look for the sniper. Martinez says when they got to the top of the tower, he told the man to take aim in case Whitman turned the corner. And I said, ‘You damn right we are,’” said Martinez. “He said, ‘Are we playing for keeps?’ And I looked at him and that’s when I realized that he was a civilian. “He said, ‘let me have your gun, I’ll go kill that SOB up there, he killed my family.’”īy that point, another man raced up the tower and joined Martinez on his mission. “There was a man that came out and he had a white pair of woman shoes in his hands, and there was blood on them,” said Martinez. (Copyright 2021 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) Ramiro Martinez is the man who took down the sniper shooting people from the clock tower in Austin 56 years ago.
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