Police: Gang threatens retaliation

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Police say a gang member is threatening to kill Austin police in retaliation for the shooting death of Nathaniel Sanders by an officer on Monday.

Ellis Ingram IV, 27, who police identify as a gang member, is charged with making terroristic threats, calling police on 911 and threatening to kill all Austin police officers. He remained in jail Friday in lieu of $50,000 bond.

The calls were laced with profanity and racial slurs, warning officers that "it's our time" and  "We gonna kill a cop every time we see 'em."

Police say Ingram was trying to bait officers into an ambush at the Walnut Creek Apartments by saying there was an "officer down" at that location.

"We were able to get enough intelligence from our officers on the streets to know that the calls were bogus calls," said APD Commander Sean Mannix.

Detectives with the APD gang unit were doing surveillance on the apartments after the shooting Monday morning.

"We observed what appeared looked like citizens putting their cars in place to where they could block the entrance and exits to the apartment complex," said APD Commander Brian Manley.

Sanders, who was killed on Monday during an early morning confrontation with police on the East Side, is also being called a member of the gang by police.

In the hours after the shooting, which happened while police were checking out the car Sanders and his friends were sleeping in, tensions ran high with neighbors throwing rocks and bottles at police and officers in riot gear.

The police officer who shot Sanders, Sr. Officer Leonardo Quintana, is on administrative leave while the shooting is being investigated.