{"id":375405,"date":"2026-07-16T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375405\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:22:06","slug":"police-shoot-kill-man-who-pulled-a-gun-on-them-during-encounter-news-radio-1200-woai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375405\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Shoot, Kill Man who Pulled a Gun on Them During Encounter | News Radio 1200 WOAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was shot and killed by San Antonio Police early Thursday morning after officers say he pulled a handgun while they were trying to question him on the West Side.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Police Chief Jesse Salame said that a probationary officer and a field training officer first spotted a man riding a bicycle whom they considered suspicious and tried to stop him. The man did not stop, and the officers followed him while calling for backup.<\/p>\n<p>Salame said officers confronted the man outside a home, where &#8220;the male&#8230; pulled out a handgun.&#8221; He said four of the five officers at the scene &#8220;opened fire on the male after he pulled out the gun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was shot and killed by San Antonio Police early Thursday morning after officers say he pulled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6920,6919,6918,6921,223,82,84,83,154,1594,272,172],"class_list":["post-375405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-charity-mccurdy","tag-charlie-parker","tag-chris-duel","tag-mr-t","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-sports","tag-spurs","tag-traffic","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375405","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=375405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}