SAN ANTONIO – Marlene Escobedo awoke overnight to three alleged home invasion suspects at the door of her Southside apartment in the 100 block of West Amber.
"All I heard was gunshots and glass breaking," Escobedo said.
She said they had hurled a potted plant through a window, before one of the suspects allegedly kicked in her front door.
San Antonio police said that suspect, whose name has not yet been released, was met with gunfire to his chest and was later pronounced dead at San Antonio Military Medical Center.
However, police are looking for the two other burglars who ran off, as well as three men who were inside the living room and opened fire but who also fled the scene, including Escobedo's 18-year-old grandson, who was visiting her apartment at the time.
"I think it was Jacob and his friends that started something. I don't know," Escobedo said about what may have led up to the home invasion.
But she also said her grandson didn't have a gun.
Even so, she said, "He probably was with the wrong crowd or the wrong friends. I don't know what to think."
Escobedo said she believes her grandson left her apartment before she went to bed, but may have run back to her apartment with his two friends to escape the three men.
She said she doesn't know who opened fire from inside her apartment because she and her husband, another grandson and his girlfriend hid in a bedroom until the shooting stopped.
Escobedo said she urges her grandson to call police "to clear his name."
She said a detective told her, "Maybe Jacob or his friends had to shoot because they kicked your door open before they shot one of you all."
Even so, Escobedo said although she moved in just a couple of months ago, apartment management has asked her to leave.
"It wasn't my fault but I don't care," Escobedo said. "I'm going to be scared. What if they come back?"