{"id":448985,"date":"2026-09-27T03:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448985\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T03:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:06:08","slug":"customers-trapped-inside-kozy-korner-for-hours-after-officer-involved-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448985\/","title":{"rendered":"Customers trapped inside Kozy Korner for hours after officer-involved shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Customers at a West Side bar were unable to leave for hours after a police shooting unfolded in the parking lot Friday night, with some later finding flat tires or damage to their vehicles.<\/p>\n

The shooting happened outside Kozy Korner near Ruiz Street and North San Marcos. A woman whose family owns the bar said customers were inside preparing for its weekly pool tournament when officers and a man armed with a shotgun ended up in the parking lot.<\/p>\n

RELATED: VIDEO | Suspect critical after pointing shotgun at officers, prompting police to open fire<\/a><\/p>\n

In a Facebook post, she said customers could not safely return to their vehicles until about 6 a.m. Some found their cars had flat tires, while others documented vehicle damage once the scene was cleared.<\/p>\n

The bar did not close until about 7:30 a.m., after staff made sure customers could retrieve their vehicles and get home safely, she said.<\/p>\n

Police Chief Jesse Salame said officers were initially called to a nearby PikNik convenience store after someone reported a man with a gun. Officers located the man about a block away near Kozy Korner.<\/p>\n

Newly obtained video shows the man carrying a large duffel bag as officers repeatedly ordered him to show his hands and put the bag down. Officers believed the bag contained a long gun.<\/p>\n

After the man moved between vehicles and did not comply with commands, officers fired less-lethal beanbag rounds, Salame said. He said the man later emerged from behind a vehicle, racked a shotgun and pointed it at officers.<\/p>\n

Ten officers opened fire, striking the man multiple times. A shotgun was recovered near where he fell.<\/p>\n

The man, who police said is in his 30s, was taken to a hospital in critical condition. No officers were injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Customers at a West Side bar were unable to leave for hours after a police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-448985","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\/448985","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=448985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}