BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A 71-year-old suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as deputies were attempting to arrest him in connection with a child sexual abuse investigation, according to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar.<\/p>\n
Deputies were serving an arrest warrant for the suspect on Wednesday at his home along Gristmill Way in Far West Bexar County.<\/p>\n
The suspect, who Sheriff Salazar said was a military veteran and former law enforcement officer in another state, is accused of sexually abusing three young girls under the age of 14.<\/p>\n
As deputies were approaching the home, they heard a single gunshot. Despite life-saving measures, the man was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n
The abuse allegedly began in another state and continued in Bexar County. “Once we got a hold of the case, we began investigating it, and we applied for and were granted a warrant for sexual abuse of a child under 14 years of age, which is a first-degree felony,” Salazar said. <\/p>\n
The charge carries a five to 99-year prison sentence, or up to a year up to life in prison,<\/p>\n
The death will be investigated as a custodial death because deputies outside the home serving the warrant when the death occurred however Salazar said no deputy used force or fired a weapon. <\/p>\n
The deceased suspect’s identity is pending release while next of kin is being notified. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A 71-year-old suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as deputies were attempting to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-383581","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\/383581","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=383581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}