SAN ANTONIO – UPDATE: SAPD detectives are searching for for a gold or beige 4 door 2000 model Honda Civic in connection to the capital murder.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (210) 224-STOP.
A 3-year-old who was days away from his fourth birthday was killed Saturday night after being hit by gun fire.
#BREAKING 4-year-old is dead after shot in the head while in car. Family was driving on New Laredo HWY when car pulled up & started shooting
— KSAT Max Massey (@MaxMasseyTV) November 5, 2017
According to police, a family was driving down New Laredo Highway near Briggs Avenue on the South West Side when someone in a car pulled up beside them and fired a single shot.
Police said 3-year-old Renee Blancas was shot in the head. The family drove to Southwest general hospital but the baby was air-lifted to University Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police are investigating who fired the shots and why.
#UPDATE child shot and killed was only 3-years-old his 4th birthday was this coming Wednesday 11/8 https://t.co/XO1FkgBecT
— KSAT Max Massey (@MaxMasseyTV) November 5, 2017