SAN ANTONIO – Four people were hospitalized after San Antonio police said a shootout took place in a Northeast Side neighborhood.
The first shots were fired just before 9:30 p.m. Sunday in the front of a house in the 5800 block of Midcrown Drive, according to the San Antonio Police Department.
However, while officers were responding to this shooting, they discovered two other shooting victims about a mile away at a house the 5900 block of Wood Craft.
According to preliminary information from SAPD, the two people found shot on Wood Craft initially went to the home on Midcrown to fight.
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Police said about six people, including a husband and wife, were in the front yard of the Midcrown home when two suspects exited their vehicle, started a confrontation and fired shots at the couple.
The husband was shot in the back and is in serious condition, police said. His wife was also hit by gunfire in the leg; her injuries are non-life threatening.
Both were taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center.
Police are investigating if the suspects were shot by the male shooting victim as he returned fire while retreating to the house. Police are also investigating if the suspects were hit from shotgun pellets that ricocheted from a steel door.
Both suspects were taken to University Hospital, which led police to believe the shooting and those injuries were related. They have non-life threatening injuries.
A third person in the suspects’ vehicle was found at the Wood Craft address and was questioned by police.
According to police, both the suspects and shooting victims were uncooperative, and witnesses were interviewed.
The case is still under investigation.
