{"id":376523,"date":"2026-07-17T06:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376523\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:16:13","slug":"officers-shoot-kill-man-who-refused-to-stop-while-riding-his-bike-sapd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376523\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers shoot, kill man who refused to stop while riding his bike, SAPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was fatally shot by police after allegedly reaching for a gun during a stop in San Antonio, according to Interim Chief Jesse Salame.<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A man riding a bicycle was shot and killed by San Antonio police early Thursday after officers said he pointed a gun at them during an attempted stop.<\/p>\n<p>Interim Police Chief Jesse Salame said officers first spotted the man riding a bicycle near Hammond Avenue and Nopal Street around 2:18 a.m. and attempted to stop him.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>According to SAPD, the man ignored officers and fled, leading officers on a pursuit before they caught up with him in the 800 block of Hammond Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect then pulled out a firearm and pointed it toward officers. Four officers fired several shots, striking the man.<\/p>\n<p>Officers immediately began life-saving measures, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, described only as a man believed to be between 30 and 40 years old, has not been publicly identified.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Salame said the four officers involved have between one and 20 years of experience with the department.<\/p>\n<p>The officer-involved shooting remains under investigation, and police said information could change as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was fatally shot by police after allegedly reaching for a gun during a stop in San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-376523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","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\/376523","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=376523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}