SAN ANTONIO – Police are searching for two suspects after a late-teen boy was shot during a fight at an intersection on the city\u2019s East Side, according to an officer at the scene.<\/p>\n
Around 8:40 p.m. on Monday, first responders were called to the scene of a reported shooting in progress near the corner of Royston Avenue and Marian Street.<\/p>\n
San Antonio Police Sgt. Daniel Contreras said officers \u201cgot a call for a shooting\u201d and found the victim, described as a Hispanic male in his late teens. Contreras said the incident began as a fight involving two suspects, also described as Hispanic males in their late teens.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt started as a fight, and you know they they came to here to this intersection at Royston and Marion, and they were fighting,\u201d Contreras said. \u201cAt some point, one of the suspects took out a weapon, and the victim was shot one time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contreras said the victim ran from the intersection toward a nearby park after the shooting. \u201cI forget the name of the park,\u201d he said. Other people then called police and EMS, he said.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to University Hospital in stable condition, Contreras said.<\/p>\n
Police had not located the suspects as of the time of the statement. \u201cWe have not been able to find them,\u201d Contreras said, adding that officers did not have information about a vehicle and were told the suspects ran from the area. Contreras said police used \u201cour raven and the canine\u201d to search but had not found anyone \u201cright now at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contreras said officers were talking with nearby residents to see if anyone saw or heard anything. He also said the shooting happened \u201cright at the corner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contreras said the victim was with a relative, who provided officers with general information that it was a fight followed by a shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Police are searching for two suspects after a late-teen boy was shot during a fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-471407","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\/471407","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=471407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}