{"id":20367,"date":"2025-10-25T05:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/20367\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T05:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:03:17","slug":"police-block-off-streets-near-downtown-as-armed-suspect-takes-to-a-rooftop-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/20367\/","title":{"rendered":"Police block off streets near downtown as armed suspect takes to a rooftop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Police blocked off several downtown streets Friday afternoon after an armed suspect took to a restaurant rooftop. <\/p>\n<p>Officers were called just before noon to the 800 block of South Presa Street for a criminal mischief call.<\/p>\n<p>A suspect armed with a knife could be seen walking on the roof of a restaurant building, which was abandoned. Police surrounded the area and could be heard yelling back and forth with the man. <\/p>\n<p>Police say that the suspect had been experiencing a mental health crisis and could be seen throwing items off the roof of the building.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken into custody after nearly an hour. It&#8217;s unclear what charges, if any, he will face. It&#8217;s unconfirmed if the building was damaged by the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for more updates on this developing story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Police blocked off several downtown streets Friday afternoon after an armed suspect took to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1680,993,15452,672,15453,82,84,83,15454,101],"class_list":["post-20367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-arrest","tag-downtown","tag-knife","tag-police","tag-rooftop","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-standoff","tag-suspect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367","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=20367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}