SAN ANTONIO – A 49-year-old woman is dead after officers shot her on the inner Northwest Side, Balcones Heights police say.
The shooting happened around 8:00 p.m. Friday in the 200 block of N. Crossroads Boulevard.
According to Balcones Heights Police Chief John Jahanara, the woman had attacked officers with homemade weapons and broke a patrol vehicle’s rear window before she was shot.
Police said the woman was also Tased multiple times, but it did not impact her.
Spencer Heath is a Digital Journalist at KSAT. Spencer graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio-Television-Film. He’s worked as a journalist in San Antonio since June of 2022.
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