The trial for Shane James Jr., who is accused of a deadly rampage in San Antonio and Austin in late 2023, is on hold.

A man accused in a deadly shooting spree from San Antonio to Austin appeared for the first time at Travis County Criminal Court to ask a judge if he could represent himself on Friday morning.

The next step in the case is to give Shane James a psychological evaluation to determine his mental state.

The San Antonio man accused of a violent rampage in Austin and Bexar County that left six people dead, including his parents has a pre-trial hearing in Austin on Thursday.

Austin police have released officer body camera video from a shooting on Dec. 5 involving a 34-year-old San Antonio man arrested in connection with a string of attacks that left six people dead and at least three others injured in Austin and Bexar County.

Shane James, who is accused of a violent rampage in Austin and Bexar County that left six people dead, including his own parents, is not giving investigators any clues about a motive.

A former board director of the Texas Organizing Project says he warned the organization of its bail program, saying it would be a risk to public safety. In 2022, TOP bonded out a man on misdemeanor assault charges against family members who he is now accused of killing.

Shane James Jr., the San Antonio man accused of murdering his parents inside their northeast Bexar County home before killing four more people and injuring three others in Austin this week, had his bond reduced twice and conditions of release amended last year in a San Antonio domestic violence case, charging paperwork obtained by KSAT Investigates shows.

A man accused of capital murder following a series of attacks that left six people dead in Bexar County and Austin on Tuesday was bonded out of the Bexar County Jail by a Texas organization nearly two years ago.

Authorities say a Texas man suspected of killing his parents in the San Antonio area and four others in Austin in a violent trail of separate attacks had cut off his ankle monitor from a previous misdemeanor domestic violence arrest.