SAN ANTONIO – Two teens were hospitalized Sunday morning after they were shot at an apartment complex on the city’s Southeast Side.
SAPD Sergeant Michelle Ramos said officers were called to the complex in the 4900 block of Pecan Grove around 9 a.m. When officers arrived, they found a 16-year-old girl shot in the back. A 17-year-old boy was grazed. Both teens were taken to Brooke Army Medical Center. Ramos said their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Ramos said the victims told officers that they were in their car in the parking lot when four men walked up and started shooting. She said at least 12 shots were fired and more than one weapon was used. One of those weapons was recovered at the scene.
“They were shot while they were sitting in the vehicle,” Ramos said. “As they were being shot at, they made their way into the apartment.”
Ramos said the four suspects, who are described to be men in their late teens or early 20s, fled the scene in a white four-door car.
A resident in the area, who asked not to be named, was “terrified.”
“We were just making breakfast and everything and all you hear is like firecrackers which they weren’t,”“It was very bad. It was like AK’s shooting everywhere. We are terrified."
Young wants the shooters to know that the violence is senseless.
“These kids are just out here doing stuff for nothing,” Young, said. “You are almost taking lives and if you did take a life, you are going to have to give your life to the system for nothing. They think that gun thing is the answer and it is not. It really is not. Especially when you have kids involved.”
A neighbor said she is now worried about leaving the home.
“It is horrifying because we can’t even walk to throw the trash because something like that can happen to us,” a neighbor said. “They are constantly breaking into cars. Drive-by shootings. Some people are shooting, and some are killing here and robbing personal items from balconies and stuff. It has to stop.”
