Man given deferred adjudication after 2018 Austin police shootout

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man at the center of an August 2018 shootout with police is serving a deferred adjudication sentence, according to court paperwork.

Craig Anthony Carter, now 34, was taken into custody after 911 calls led police to his mother, who said he pointed a gun at her, and identified his car for officers. Police chased Carter's car and stopped it with a PIT maneuver, then a shootout began, according to an arrest affidavit at the time.

After going through a process to establish if he was competent to stand trial, Carter pleaded guilty in 2022 to deadly conduct-discharge firearm, according to court documents. The aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges were dismissed as a part of that agreement.

He was sentenced to 10 years of deferred adjudication probation. That means "a person accepts responsibility for committing a crime and is placed on a type of probation for a period of time. If the person successfully completes their probation, the judge can decide not to convict them, allowing the person to avoid having a guilty conviction on their criminal record," according to the Travis County District Attorney's website. He also had to follow recommendations related to maintaining his mental health, wear an ankle monitor for the first two years and not have any guns or ammunition. He also was told to have no contact with the officers involved in the shootout.

Court documents show his deferred adjudication probation continues and the ankle monitor was removed in October.

The two officers who fired back at Carter did not face charges, KXAN previously reported.