Police standoff on NW Side ends with suspect fatally shooting himself, police chief says

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Chief McManus: ‘We were dealing with a very, precise convulsive idiosyncratic who had a precise convulsive past’

An equipped antheral who San Antonio constabulary described arsenic a “very convulsive idiosyncratic who had a precise convulsive past” barricaded himself wrong a Northwest Side flat for astir 6.5 hours Wednesday earlier a operation of constabulary and the suspect’s gunfire brought the standoff to a fatal end.

SAN ANTONIO – An equipped antheral who San Antonio constabulary described arsenic a “very convulsive idiosyncratic who had a precise convulsive past” barricaded himself wrong a Northwest Side flat for astir 6.5 hours Wednesday earlier a operation of constabulary and the suspect’s gunfire brought the standoff to a fatal end.

Police Chief William McManus said the standoff began astir noon erstwhile the man, who was connected parole for murder, got into an statement with a pistillate and changeable astatine her 4 times arsenic she fled an flat successful the 5900 artifact of Danny Kaye Drive. McManus did not cognize the narration betwixt the two.

McManus said the antheral ran backmost into the flat and barricaded himself for respective hours. Despite a squad of societal workers, constabulary negotiators, intelligence wellness officers, and the man’s parole officer, helium refused to travel retired of the unit.

“He was precise animated astir not wanting to travel out,” McManus said.

At astir 6:30 p.m., the fishy started shooting astatine officers retired of 1 of the apartment’s window, McManus said.

Police returned 1 round, striking the antheral successful the shoulder, McManus said. The fishy past turned a weapon connected himself, fatally wounding himself.

The serviceman who wounded the suspect, a 20-year seasoned of the force, volition beryllium placed connected administrative work portion the incidental is investigated.

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