SAN ANTONIO – A man was hospitalized in critical condition after a suspected road rage shooting in an H-E-B parking lot on San Antonio\u2019s South Side on Wednesday evening, police said.<\/p>\n
Around 5:10 p.m. on Tuesday, police were called to the scene of a reported shooting in progress near the corner of SW Military Drive and S Zarzamora Street.<\/p>\n
San Antonio police said the victim, a man in his 30s, was shot in the chest at a busy shopping center off Southwest Military Drive near Zarzamora just after 5 p.m. Investigators said three vehicles were involved in the road rage incident and they were working to determine how it started and who was responsible.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt appears to be some type of road rage incident where one vehicle was crashing into another car one of the occupants of the vehicle shot at and struck a Hispanic male,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
A witness shared video from the scene showing the victim on the ground after the shooting. In the video, a person can be heard saying, \u201cOmg somebody got hit on the floor oh my gosh.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alicia Alvarado, who said she was inside Cash of America across the street, said a woman ran into the store yelling for help.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was holding his chest and he saying help me I just got shot I don\u2019t wanna die I don\u2019t wanna die and she went over there and took off her shirt she says she was in her bra and that she started holding with compression on top of his chest and all she saw was his blood dripping down,\u201d Alvarado said.<\/p>\n
Alvarado said family members arrived at the scene after the shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went there and I started crying cause I felt bad. His brother came. His mom came and just seeing all that it just hurt my feelings,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She also said the shooting has left customers fearful about returning to the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cCustomers are scared they\u2019re telling me they don\u2019t want to come back over here at this location because they\u2019re scared about the shootings,\u201d Alvarado said.<\/p>\n
Police said the suspect, described as a man in his 20s, was arrested as he tried to get away. Crime scene investigators remained at the location collecting evidence as officers continued working to determine who was to blame.<\/p>\n
According to the San Antonio Fire Department, at least one person was shot and transported in critical condition to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. We’ll update this article as we learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A man was hospitalized in critical condition after a suspected road rage shooting in an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-478923","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\/478923","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=478923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}