{"id":184875,"date":"2026-02-28T22:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184875\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T22:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:08:23","slug":"fatal-bus-shooting-in-san-antonio-halted-by-off-duty-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184875\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal bus shooting in San Antonio halted by off-duty officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A San Antonio man was detained by an off-duty officer on Friday, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/deadly-hookah-lounge-shooting-21369335.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:fatal shooting of another individual;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">fatal shooting of another individual<\/a> on the city&#8217;s West Side, according <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/san-antonio-shooting-21356641.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:to the San Antonio Police Department;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">to the San Antonio Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At around 3:40 p.m. on Friday, February 27, authorities were called to the intersection of Zarzamora Street and West Commerce Street for reports of a shooting. Upon arrival, preliminary information released by the department stated that witnesses saw some kind of verbal altercation between the two men as they were exiting a bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As their argument continued to intensify, the suspect, a 26-year-old man, allegedly drew a firearm on the other man before firing off several rounds at him. Witnesses at the scene say he fired off at least four shots before running across the street. That&#8217;s when, according to the SAPD, an off-duty police officer intervened after hearing the gunshots nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The officer reportedly\u00a0detained the suspect until SAPD arrived, the report states. The 26-year-old man is currently being held for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting victim, a 40-year-old, was immediately transported to a nearby hospital where he eventually succumbed to his injuries, authorities revealed. He has since then pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/article\/news\/local\/san-antonio-texas-satx-dilley-sapd-fatal-deadly-west-commerce-street-shooting-off-duty-officer-detained-suspect-update-february-2026\/273-deaf275b-1218-4e84-a3d3-5638dd7152fc?tbref=hp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:update by KENS;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">update by KENS<\/a> on Saturday stated that the Dilley Police Department had one of their patrol officers working on an off-duty capacity on Friday as a Texas peace officer when the shooting occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAPD have stated that this is an active and ongoing investigation with information subject to change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/bus-shooting-san-antonio-21947247.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fatal bus shooting in San Antonio halted by off-duty officer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Fatal bus shooting in San Antonio halted by off-duty officer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Antonio man was detained by an off-duty officer on Friday, after the fatal shooting of another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[73808,82,84,83,5264],"class_list":{"0":"post-184875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-dilley-police-department","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","11":"tag-san-antonio-news","12":"tag-san-antonio-police-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}