Austin mass shooter disabled woman with his car in 2016: lawsuit

Ndiaga Diagne, 53, was killed after he shot two people to death at a bar in Austin over the weekend, and has a history of causing havoc elsewhere. A lawsuit filed in 2017 alleged that the wannabe jihadist Diagne was driving a car when he ran into pedestrian Jennifer Antoine, who was seriously injured at the time, per the New York Post.

The 2016 lawsuit from Antoine alleged that Diagne as well as the company that owned the car he was driving were “negligent, careless, reckless, grossly negligent in the ownership, operation, management, maintenance, repair, inspection and control" of the vehicle involved in the incident. The company that owned the vehicle was named in the lawsuit as Hurricane Management Corp.

“Jennifer Antoine sustained severe and permanent personal injuries, became sick, sore, lame and disabled; suffered injuries to her nervous system; suffered mental anguish, was confined to hospital, bed and home and may, in the future, be so confined,” the lawsuit alleged.

The lawsuit did not say the dollar amount that was being sought for in the lawsuit from Antoine, but the filing said the “plaintiff is only seeking to recover those damages not recoverable through no-fault insurance under the facts and circumstances in this action.” How the case turned is unclear at this time.

Diagne, who came to the US as an immigrant from Senegal and became a US citizen, was a cab driver in the 2010s. However, his license from the Taxi & Limousine Commission expired in 2020. The lawsuit did not make clear if he was a driving his cab at the time of the incident.