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From tipster to suspect, woman arrested for murder

Michelle Chase, 49, charged with murder

SAN ANTONIO – A woman who called in a tip to police about a fatal shooting was arrested for the crime.

Michelle Chase, 49, was arrested Monday night and charged with murder. (when was she arrested wasn't mentioned in submitted story)

Police said they were called to an apartment complex in the 600 block of Rio Grande Street Sunday morning for a suspicious death. It turned out the person who called in the tip was Chase, police said.

The next day, an autopsy revealed that the man suffered a gunshot wound to the chest.

Police said Chase and the victim are not related, but that they knew each other.

"There's some kind of relationship between them," Sgt. Jesse Salame of San Antonio Police Department said. "There may be indication that she may have been a caretaker of some sort. He has a disability."

The victim has not been identified but Salame said he was 50 years old.


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Stephanie Serna is a weekday anchor on Good Morning San Antonio and GMSA at 9 a.m. She joined the KSAT 12 News team in November 2009 as a general assignments reporter.

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