San Antonio police are investigating after a 16-year-old Edison High School student was assaulted in an apartment elevator Tuesday morning. School officials say investigators are looking into whether she may have been followed from the campus area after a school event.<\/p>\n
In a letter to families Thursday, Interim Principal Dr. Irene Cruz said the student had walked home from a school event before the assault.<\/p>\n
According to a preliminary San Antonio Police Department report, officers responded around 8:30 a.m. to the 500 block of Alametos Street, near San Pedro Avenue, for a reported assault. There, they met the 16-year-old, who told officers she was returning home when an unknown man entered the elevator with her and assaulted her.<\/p>\n
Police said the teen escaped when the elevator doors opened. Officers searched the area but did not find the suspect, and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n
In her letter, Cruz said investigators are also examining whether the student was followed from the Edison High School campus before the assault.<\/p>\n
Cruz said the San Antonio\u00a0ISD Police Department is assisting the San Antonio Police Department with the investigation and has increased patrols around the campus and surrounding neighborhood.<\/p>\n
“We appreciate the vigilance of the student who reported the incident,” Cruz wrote. “Their report allows our officers to respond to keep the community safe.”<\/p>\n
Cruz encouraged families to remind students to remain aware of their surroundings.<\/p>\n
“Student safety is a top priority at\u00a0SAISD schools, and we want to keep families informed of situations as soon as we are able,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
Police have not released a description of the suspect. Authorities said the investigation remains active and that details released so far are preliminary and subject to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio police are investigating after a 16-year-old Edison High School student was assaulted in an apartment elevator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-395953","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\/395953","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=395953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}