Police respond to the shooting outside the Frost Bank Center -Credit:Reach Publishing Services Limited
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A San Antonio shooting has left one person fighting for their life as the city is placed on partial lockdown.
The injured person was hospitalized and a suspect was detained soon after the shooting at the Frost Bank Center on Thursday night, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. The shooting occurred minutes after the San Antonio Spurs wrapped up their home game against the Detroit Pistons at the Frost Bank Center.
It comes days after a knife-wielding man was shot dead by a state trooper after fatally stabbing a woman and a dog in a road rage incident on the side of a Virginia highway, police said.
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Three other people were also stabbed during the incident on Sunday, which authorities said started as a road rage encounter after a crash along Interstate 495 southbound near exit 52 in Annandale, Virginia quickly escalated.
Virginia State Police were called to the scene at around 1:20pm Sunday. “It started out as a property damage crash and now he’s stabbing people with a knife,” a Fairfax police dispatcher said.
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There were “multiple individuals down with stab wounds,” the dispatcher noted. When a trooper arrived at the crash, he was confronted by a male suspect wielding a knife and shot him in self-defense just before 1:30pm.
The knife-wielding suspect was struck twice in the chest, according to the dispatcher. He was rushed to hospital with serious injuries and later died.
A total of four people were stabbed during the incident, including a 39-year-old woman who died from her injuries. The trooper was not injured.
Emergency personnel and injured people were visible on the road in a video of the incident. Two victims were categorized as “red tag,” signifying critical injuries, while one victim was receiving CPR.
A fourth victim had a “yellow tag,” indicating that their injuries were severe but not immediately life-threatening. The victims were taken to the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus.