The lawyer who threatened his ex-girlfriend with a gun in a Texas bar is found dead

By Marlene Lenthang -

A Texas lawyer who threatened to shoot his ex-girlfriend at a bar last week with a gun was found dead by police on Friday.

The body of Gavin Rush, 41, was found by the Austin Police Department on Wednesday just before 4:30 p.m. after receiving a call from a person asking them to come to his home to check if he was in good condition .

The police stated that his death is not considered suspicious and that there is an ongoing investigation.

Officials did not report how he died.

Gavin Rush Austin Police Department

He was found dead just four days after he was arrested on November 26, after he pulled a gun on his ex-girlfriend while she was working at a bar.

The victim told police that Rush had been her boyfriend for three years and that their relationship had ended about a month and a half earlier, according to her affidavit.

A week earlier, while he was trying to win her back, he discovered that she was interested in a relationship with someone else, according to the affidavit.

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Over several days, the victim and Rush exchanged text messages and he threatened to “harm himself and the other person” with whom she was beginning a relationship. She eventually stopped responding to his messages because she was at work. , according to the affidavit.

She was working behind a bar counter in the 10400 block of Anderson Mill Road Saturday when Rush walked in, sat on a stool and put a small leather satchel on the counter.

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He told the victim, "so you're not going to talk to me?"

and she answered “no”.

Then she reached into her bag, pulled out a pistol and aimed it at him, activating a laser sight with the red dot centered on her chest.

Two bar patrons who were sitting next to Rush, and who knew both him and the victim and were aware of his threats, told police they saw the red dot from the peephole on his chest and knocked Rush down. Rush between the two.

According to one of the two, as Rush fell to the ground "he put the gun under his chin and tried to shoot himself in the head."

In the end, the patrons managed to disarm Rush and held him down until the police arrived.