Gunfight erupts as SWAT serves North Side warrant; officer and suspect hospitalized<\/a><\/p>\nThe newly released video shows the moments four SWAT officers approached a parked vehicle where investigators say 35-year-old Roman Pena was sitting. According to police, officers arrived in an unmarked vehicle shortly to execute the warrant.<\/p>\n
Police said officers saw Pena holding a handgun as they pulled in front of his vehicle. Investigators said Pena immediately began firing at the officers, prompting all four SWAT officers to return fire.<\/p>\n
During the exchange, Pena was struck multiple times and the SWAT officer was shot once in the leg. They were taken to a hospital for treatment. No bystanders were injured.<\/p>\n
Pena was later charged with four counts of aggravated assault against a peace officer.<\/p>\n
SAPD identified the officers involved as:<\/p>\n
Officer Adel Mokrane, 9 years of serviceOfficer Nathan Bundy, 9 years of serviceOfficer Jose Sahagun, 8 years of serviceOfficer Brandon Pratt, 8 years of service<\/p>\n
The San Antonio Police Department’s Shooting Team and Internal Affairs Unit are conducting separate but concurrent investigations into the shooting. As with all officer-involved shootings, the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office is also reviewing the incident.<\/p>\n
The release of the body camera footage comes more than a month after the shooting, in keeping with the department’s practice of releasing video after the initial stages of the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Body camera footage released Monday shows the gunfight that injured both a San Antonio Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-379629","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\/379629","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=379629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}