{"id":395653,"date":"2026-08-02T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395653\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:25:09","slug":"sapd-five-officers-shoot-and-kill-69-year-old-man-on-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395653\/","title":{"rendered":"SAPD: Five officers shoot and kill 69-year-old man on West Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five San Antonio police officers shot and killed a 69-year-old man on the West Side on Saturday evening, according to the city\u2019s police department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived in the 600 Block of Aurora Avenue around 7:45 p.m. to respond to reports that a man was across the street from his home and waving a handgun, said Acting Police Chief Jesse Salame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an occurrence that the department was notified of multiple times over the past month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/02\/five-officers-shoot-kill-west-side-man-waving-weapon-near-park-sapd-says\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSAT first reported<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers told the man multiple times to drop his weapon. The man did not listen to officers\u2019 commands, despite Salame saying it initially appeared that he would comply.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Salame said the five officers \u201cperceived a threat\u201d and shot at the man. There was no evidence that the 65-year-old fired his weapon, which was loaded. No officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p>All of the involved officers have been placed on administrative duty, Salame said, while they await the results of the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five San Antonio police officers shot and killed a 69-year-old man on the West Side on Saturday evening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-395653","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\/395653","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=395653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}