Police called to shooting victim's East Side home 84 times since August

SAPD investigates shooting death of 37-year-old man

SAN ANTONIO – The East Side home where a man was found shot to death Wednesday afternoon was well known to police officers.

Records provided by the San Antonio Police Department show officers responded to the home 84 times since early August of last year.

The calls for service involved 25 disturbances, five that involved guns and one involving a knife.

As of late Wednesday night, the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office had not officially identified the 37-year-old victim who was found in his room by a friend.

"He was supposed to meet a friend," said Sgt. Jesse Salame, a spokesman for SAPD. "He didn't show up for his appointment, and the friend came over here to pick him up and found him deceased in his room."

Salame said neighbors reported hearing an argument at the home in the overnight hours and then gunshots a short time later, but it doesn't appear police were called.

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"Neighbors described hearing some kind of commotion last night and some shots sometime in the middle of the night," Salame said. "Our crime scene unit is processing the house, and our evidence unit is going to do a sweep of the entire area and homicide detectives are also canvassing the neighborhood."

While investigators have not identified the victim, a woman who arrived at the scene was certain he was her son.

Gennie Brown said she came to her son's home to make sure he didn't miss an appointment with his probation officer.

"Because he had lost his phone and I couldn't get in touch with him," Brown said. "I didn't know nothing until I just parked my car."

Brown said one of her son's friends told her they saw his body.

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"They went to his house and his door was open," Brown said. "So whoever done this, they knew him, he knew them."

Residents who live on the street said they were tired of the violence occurring in their neighborhood.

"It's violent," Dennis Tate said. "Just all night long. Nobody in the neighborhood can sleep because of gunshots and violence all night long."

Rosie Gomez said she doesn't feel safe in her own home.

"You can't sit on your porch and enjoy yourself because you hear all these shootings. You have to run inside and jump on the floor," Gomez said. "I have to jump off my bed because I'm scared they're going to hit me."

Homicide detectives continue to look for clues but didn't have any suspects in the case.