SAN ANTONIO – Police said a 31-year-old man was in critical condition after officers in a covert unit exchanged gunfire with him during an attempted arrest on a felony narcotics warrant.

Around 7:20 p.m. on Sunday, first responders were called to the scene of a reported shooting in progress near the corner of Marbach Road and Horal Drive.

Police Chief Jesse Salame said the officer-involved shooting happened about 7:30 a.m. after undercover officers had been following a suspect “wanted on a felony narcotics warrant” through “several different locations” while trying to confirm his identity before calling in uniformed officers to take him into custody.

“At some point, the suspect realized that he was being followed,” Salame said. He said the suspect “pulled a waved a gun out the window, and the officers reported that he fired his weapon at them.” Salame said officers returned fire.

The shooting ended near the intersection of “Horral and Marbach,” Salame said. He said the suspect then turned his vehicle around, “caused at least one accident,” and struck a tree at a Burger King. Salame said the suspect got out and ran.

A front-seat passenger was taken into custody, Salame said. He said a back-seat passenger got away while officers were chasing the suspect and that police did not yet know who that person was. “We’re looking for him,” Salame said.

Salame said the suspect “collapsed a short distance away in one of the parking lots,” was found to have been wounded and was taken into custody. He said the man was reported to be in critical condition at the hospital. Salame said he did not know where the suspect was shot.

Salame said a handgun was recovered inside the suspect’s vehicle. He said multiple shots were fired, but he could not yet say how many.

“There was a couple other vehicles that were caught in the crossfire,” Salame said, adding that no bystanders were injured and no officers were injured. He said no one involved in the crash was hurt or taken to the hospital, and those people were being interviewed as witnesses.

Salame said the four officers involved are assigned to the department’s covert unit and have “between 10 and 8 years’ experience between the four of them.”

The homicide unit and internal affairs unit responded and will conduct “separate, but concurrent investigations” into what happened before, during and after the shooting, Salame said. He said the scene would remain active “for a while” as investigators collect evidence, including shell casings in the street, and that nearby businesses would be impacted.

This is a developing story.