William Todd Austin, 37, male, Black/African American, died on July 11, 2025, after being shot inside a salon in Arlington, Texas. Late that morning, patrons on South Cooper Street heard gunfire ripple through the quiet rooms of the Salon and Spa Galleria. Responding officers arrived to find William Todd Austin, 37, male, gravely wounded and a woman with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound; both were transported for treatment, and the scene was secured as detectives began piecing together
the sequence of events. Police described the incident as an apparent murder-suicide and emphasized it was isolated.
Investigators determined the violence began just before 10 a.m., when a woman entered the salon and shot William Todd Austin, 37, male, multiple times before turning the gun on herself. Others were inside the business at the time, but no one else was injured. The address listed for the incident—7807 South Cooper Street—placed the scene within a cluster of small suites and beauty businesses, where the shock of a sudden, targeted attack left witnesses reeling and the broader community unsettled.
Detectives quickly focused on the relationship between the two people involved, noting that they knew one another and that the initial evidence supported a domestic-related motive. Local news outlets identified the suspected shooter as T’Mone Michelle Williams, 37, who, after firing on William Todd Austin, 37, male, shot herself and later died at a hospital. With the suspected shooter deceased, police reported no outstanding threat to the public and no arrests connected to the case; the investigation proceeded under a murder-suicide classification while the medical examiner worked to formally confirm identities and causes of death.
In the hours and days that followed, the room where the attack unfolded became the center of a methodical forensic sweep—shell casings collected, witness statements logged, and surveillance footage reviewed—while detectives reconstructed the final movements of William Todd Austin, 37, male, and the woman believed to have targeted him. Official summaries reiterated what the first responders saw: a single episode of lethal, personal violence contained within the salon, a case number assigned, and a community left to absorb the loss.
