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EXCLUSIVE: The suspect in today’s Austin Central Library shooting is HAROLD NEWTON KEENE — a repeat offender long protected by Travis County’s revolving-door justice system. Just after noon, Keene opened fire inside the downtown library, injuring one man and sending terrified patrons running for cover. The victim suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Keene fled the scene and was captured about an hour later in South Austin. This was not Keene’s first violent incident. Back in April, Keene lured a man outside a day-labor staffing office on Airport Blvd, just steps from Eastside Pies — then pulled a gunmetal-gray revolver from his jacket and aimed it inches from the man’s face. The victim told police Keene asked, “Are we good?” before raising the weapon and lunging toward him. Security video later showed the man dropping his gloves and bolting for the door as Keene advanced, his jacket flaring open just long enough for officers to see the revolver glint in his hand. But even that wasn’t Keene’s first time turning a trivial dispute into violence. Just a year earlier, inside the Travis County jail, Keene snapped over a chess game — punching another inmate in the face and knocking him to the floor inside as surveillance cameras captured it all. The victim’s nose poured blood; he was rushed first to the jail clinic and then to the hospital with a confirmed fracture. All of it happened inside a secure county facility. Yet prosecutors later dismissed the assault, citing that Keene was “receiving treatment through felony probation” — a decision that let him walk free. Today, he shot somebody in a public library filled with families.