At least 10 San Antonio police officers opened fire on a man after he allegedly pointed a shotgun at them just west of downtown Friday night, according to Police Chief Jesse Salame.<\/p>\n
The man, who police described as being in his 30s, was struck multiple times and rushed to a San Antonio hospital in critical condition before having surgery, according to Salame.<\/p>\n
Officers were first called to the 500 block of Ruiz Street for reports of a man armed with a gun at the Pik Nik Foods convenience store. Police found the man a short distance away in the parking lot of the Kozy Korner Saloon near Ruiz and San Marcos streets.<\/p>\n
Salame said the man had a duffel bag and was moving between vehicles in the parking lot. Officers could see what appeared to be a gun inside the bag, according to police.<\/p>\n
Officers used “less-than-lethal beanbag rounds” and repeatedly ordered the man to put down the bag and surrender. That’s when Salame said the man eventually stepped out from behind a vehicle, allegedly racked a shotgun and pointed it toward officers.<\/p>\n
At least 10 officers then opened fire, striking the man multiple times. A shotgun was recovered next to him, according to SAPD.<\/p>\n
Salame said investigators were still working to determine how many shots were fired and whether the man fired the shotgun. No officers were injured in the shooting.<\/p>\n
Several witnesses were taken downtown to provide statements to investigators. SAPD’s homicide and internal affairs units are investigating the shooting, and police are also reviewing surveillance video from the area.<\/p>\n
The man’s identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 10 San Antonio police officers opened fire on a man after he allegedly pointed a shotgun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-448565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysastaff","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\/448565","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=448565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}