SCHERTZ, Texas – A boy who was killed, apparently by a stray bullet, during a deputy-involved shooting in Schertz was identified Friday as Kameron Prescott, 6.
Kameron was inside his family's home, at the Pecan Grove Mobile Home Park on FM 78, Thursday when he was hit by the gunfire.
According to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, four deputies fired shots outside the home when a woman who they believed was armed with a gun appeared to be reaching for the weapon.
The woman was shot and killed, Salazar said.
Deputies had chased the woman from another mobile home park, in the 11200 block of FM 1518, after she threatened to shoot one of them with a gun, Salazar said.
The deputy who reportedly was threatened was investigating a report of a stolen car at that location when he found the woman, who had outstanding warrants, trying to hide in a closet.
Salazar said she ran off, and at one point during the foot chase, deputies waded through a creek with water up to their chests.
When they tracked the woman to the mobile home park on FM 78, they saw her attempting to break into homes, Salazar said.
"She had come by here and tried to kick in our front door," said Burwin Atkinson, who lives across the road from the home where Kameron was shot. "My wife and two other grandchildren were in there. My wife told them to lie on the floor."
Atkinson had gone out to pick up another grandchild from school. But when he returned, he couldn't get onto the property because deputies had closed off the area.
"I heard a single gunshot followed by a volley of gunshots," Atkinson said.
In the home next door to his, Rhonda Campbell and her family were still shaken by an encounter with the wanted woman.
Campbell said the suspect kicked in her front door.
"She was standing right here, demanding my car keys. Well, it took me almost 30 years to get my dream car. She wasn't about to get it," Campbell said. "(She was) desperate, maybe on drugs. That's the opinion I've got."
Less than 10 minutes after the woman ran from her home, Campbell and her family heard the gunfire.
Salazar said although several people along the chase route reported seeing the woman with a gun, they didn't find one with her body.
Investigators returned to the scene Friday morning to look for the weapon.
Campbell said she doesn't blame deputies for the actions they took, which possibly led to the death of an innocent bystander.
"It was probably an accident. Things happen, you know?," she said. "I don't call that anybody's fault."
Salazar said part of the investigation will try to determine who fired the shot that killed the child.
Kameron attended Weiderstein Elementary in the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District, said school district spokesman Ed Suarez.
Suarez said he expects extra counselors will be on hand when classes resume in early January.