SAN ANTONIO – A 17-year-old boy is dead after he was shot in the chest early Wednesday while police were responding to reports of someone prowling through a West Side neighborhood.<\/p>\n
The shooting happened just after 12:30 a.m. along Melissa Sue near Gilbert Garza Park.<\/p>\n
Police said an officer was called to the neighborhood after someone reported a person prowling the block. When the officer arrived, they encountered a group of people who said they had been with the teenager earlier in the night.<\/p>\n
According to police, the group said they left the teen behind after learning he was apparently planning to break into vehicles.<\/p>\n
While speaking with the group, the officer heard a gunshot nearby and drove down the street to investigate.<\/p>\n
Police said the officer found the teen on the ground with a gunshot wound to his chest. Investigators said he was wearing a ski mask and a 30-round Glock magazine was found next to him.<\/p>\n
The teen was taken to the hospital in critical condition, where he later succumbed to his injuries. <\/p>\n
Investigators are still trying to determine what led to the shooting and whether anyone else was with the teen when he was shot.<\/p>\n
Police have not identified a suspect and were searching the surrounding area for anyone who may have been involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A 17-year-old boy is dead after he was shot in the chest early Wednesday while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-430653","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\/430653","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=430653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}