Scene clear at NE Side standoff after shooting suspect not found, police say
SAN ANTONIO San Antonio police say they were involved in a standoff with a shooting suspect after he barricaded himself inside a Northeast Side apartment late Tuesday night. According to police, officers were called to the area after receiving word of a man shot. Authorities said they believed the suspect had barricaded himself inside one of the apartments so out of caution they called the departments SWAT team. After three hours, police went inside the apartment they thought the suspect was barricaded in, but there was no suspect to be found. The scene was cleared around 12:40 p.m.Police did not release the victims name or age.
Fire damages dialysis clinic, smoke spreads to neighboring businesses, firefighters say
SAN ANTONIO An early morning fire damaged a dialysis clinic and the smoke spread to some neighboring businesses, the San Antonio Fire Department said Wednesday. Firefighters were called sometime before 8 a.m. to a clinic in the 2300 block of NE Loop 410, not far from Starcrest Drive, after receiving reports of a fire. Firefighters extinguish fire at abandoned 2-story structure downtownFirefighters said the fire originated inside the dialysis clinic and that the smoke got into the common attic of the strip center, spreading to other businesses that included an office for Texas Parks and Wildlife. Fire officials said the fire was discovered just as the staff was arriving to open the clinic, so there were no patients inside. Arson investigators are working to determine the exact cause of the fire.