SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Police are searching for a man armed with a “rusty machete” following a reported attack Friday afternoon at about 2:10 p.m. at a Shell station on the Northwest Side near Interstate 10 and Vance Jackson Road.<\/p>\n
Police tell us say the suspect used a handleless machete and that the victim was walking under the bridge when a homeless man struck him in the head for no reason. <\/p>\n
A man who witnessed the attack said the victim was “walking on the sidewalk nearby when a homeless black male, medium build, came up, confronted him, and then hit him in the face with the machete – and took off,” said Sergeant Mario Montoya from the San Antonio Police Department.<\/p>\n
The victim, who suffered a two-inch gash on his forehead, fled to a nearby Shell station for help, while the suspect was last seen fleeing north on Vance Jackson Road.<\/p>\n
Officers recovered the weapon near a Bill Miller BBQ on the opposite side of the highway and described it as a rusty machete .<\/p>\n
The suspect is described as a Black male with a medium build, wearing an aqua blue shirt and blue jeans.<\/p>\n
The victim was transported to University Hospital in stable condition. <\/p>\n
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San Antonio police have not yet confirmed any arrests as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Police are searching for a man armed with a “rusty machete” following a reported attack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-265402","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\/265402","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=265402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}