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Two San Antonio Shootings Hours Apart Leave One Critically Hurt, Another Wounded

Police are investigating two separate shootings in San Antonio with suspects at large.

Overview

  • Officers found a man with a torso gunshot around 3:45 a.m. near South Frio and Buena Vista streets on the West Side, close to UTSA’s downtown campus.
  • Police said two people approached that victim, shot him, and fled north on South Frio Street, and no suspect descriptions were available.
  • The man from the West Side shooting was taken to a local hospital in critical condition as detectives continued their work.
  • Around noon on the Northwest Side, an argument in the 200 block of West Quill Drive escalated into a fistfight before one participant retrieved a gun and shot the other man twice.
  • The Northwest Side victim sustained a leg gunshot and a head injury and was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, while the shooter and a third man who wielded a tire iron left before officers arrived.