I am hopeful that as many neighbors as possible will be willing to take the time to study this factual account from a first-rate local criminal-defense attorney, Ms. Kiele Linroth Pace, about aggravated assault and how that crime is defined in the state penal code of Texas: "In Texas, Aggravated Assault is when a person commits assault and he either: 1. causes serious bodily injury to another, or 2. uses or exhibits a deadly weapon during the commission of the assault."
https://www.pacefirm.com/faq/assault.html
Aggravated assault is one of two categories of violent crime that the Austin Police Department has specifically identified as having increased significantly in northeast Austin (identified by APD as the "Edward sector" of Austin) in the period from January 2019 to January 2020, according to a recent news report in the "Austin Monitor" online newspaper: https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2020/03/austin-police-department-sees-increase-in-violent-crime/ If more residents of our section of Austin obtain additional information about what an aggravated assault consists of and what the penalty is for committing that crime, that knowledge could help to deter violent crime of that type in northeast Austin. It seems to me that people who are inebriated or under the influence of an illicit drug and also own a gun are at increased risk of committing an aggravated assault in our section of town. If people in our northeastern section of Austin would strive to refrain from binge drinking or from consuming any illicit drug, this could help our neighborhoods to achieve a dramatic reduction in aggravated assault. Some factual information from a portion of Ms. Pace's blog that responds to the mistaken belief of many Austinites that an aggravated assault can only occur if the victim is injured: "It is even possible to commit Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon without anyone actually being injured...."
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