SAPD officers shoot and kill man suspected in recent robberies

SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Police Department stated that officers shot and killed a suspect at the southeast aspect on Monday night.

Medics spoke back to a capturing at the 100 block of Prestwick round 6:15 p.m. on Labor Day. Chief William McManus arrived on the scene and stated that officers have been monitoring a 27-year-old man with arrest warrants for a couple of recent robberies, one on Sunday and two on Monday. He stated it seems that the suspect fired a gun at officers pursuing him, however an investigation would decide that evidently. Officers returned fireplace, killing him in the yard of a place of abode. 

McManus referred to as the suspect “a violent individual who should have been in jail,” a not unusual chorus after a chain of shootings in recent weeks.

Monday night time’s capturing marks the fifteenth involving SAPD officers in 2023, and that is the fourth time in the ultimate two weeks that SAPD officers have exchanged gunfire with suspects. One incident on August 24 ended with two officers hospitalized after being shot. On August 30, two separate shootings every ended with a suspect killed and an officer hospitalized.

McManus stated every case concerned suspects with long legal histories.

An investigation is underway.

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