{"id":235467,"date":"2026-04-05T00:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235467\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:32:06","slug":"dog-shot-amid-defensive-discharge-during-walk-in-san-antonio-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235467\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog shot amid &#8216;defensive discharge&#8217; during walk in San Antonio, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s unclear what the condition of the dog is. It also isn&#8217;t known if the dog was owned or if it was a stray.<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A dog was shot out due to a &#8220;defensive discharge&#8221; Saturday evening while a man was going on a walk, SAPD says.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the 100 block of Torreon around 6:09 p.m. for a shooting in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Once there, they found out that a rottweiler charged at a man while he was walking down the street, causing a &#8220;defensive discharge&#8221; by the man, hitting the dog once, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Animal Control is on scene as officials continue to investigate this shooting. Police do not believe at this time that there was anything criminal in this case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what the condition of the dog is. It also isn&#8217;t known if the dog was owned or if it was a stray.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing situation and KENS 5 will continue to update this article as we learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s unclear what the condition of the dog is. It also isn&#8217;t known if the dog was owned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-235467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235467","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=235467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}