A San Antonio police officer is recovering after a shoplifting incident at a local Walmart took a violent turn Friday evening. Authorities said the officer was stabbed while attempting to handcuff the alleged shoplifter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The incident happened around 7:48 p.m. on July 3, 2026, at the Walmart in the 2100 block of Southeast Loop 410, according to a San Antonio Police Department incident report.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SAPD said the officer was helping Walmart security after a 35-year-old woman was detained on suspicion of shoplifting. That’s when the woman tried to run as the officer was finishing paperwork.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When the officer moved to handcuff her, she allegedly pulled out a weapon and stabbed him in the head. He suffered minor injuries and drove himself to a nearby hospital, where he was treated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The woman was taken into custody at the scene and is expected to be charged with aggravated assault on a peace officer. Police have not released her identity or said what type of weapon was used.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear whether she will also face charges related to the alleged shoplifting. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n
MySA has reached out to Walmart for comment regarding the incident and will update this story if more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Antonio police officer is recovering after a shoplifting incident at a local Walmart took a violent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-361132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361132","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=361132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}