{"id":398728,"date":"2026-08-05T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398728\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:30:10","slug":"san-antonio-police-cadet-injured-in-accidental-shooting-at-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398728\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio police cadet injured in accidental shooting at academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A San Antonio Police Department Academy cadet was hospitalized Tuesday after accidentally shooting himself in the foot during firearms training, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at the\u00a0SAPD Training Academy in the 12200 block of Southeast Loop 410 Access Road, near Texas A&amp;M University-San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the cadet, a man in his 30s, suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the foot and was taken to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxsanantonio.com\/newsletter-daily\/san-antonio-police-academy-cadet-injured-after-accidentally-shooting-himself-in-foot\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FOX 29<\/a> \u00a0reported the cadet&#8217;s weapon discharged accidentally. SAPD is investigating the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at the department&#8217;s 165-acre Training Academy, where recruits complete thousands of hours of instruction before becoming San Antonio police officers.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Antonio Police Department Academy cadet was hospitalized Tuesday after accidentally shooting himself in the foot during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-398728","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\/398728","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=398728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}