SAN ANTONIO – A Bexar County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said Friday afternoon that there was no proof to back up claims that a man had planned a shooting attack at Port San Antonio.
"There's nothing to substantiate that this is a thwarted active shooter that planned on committing violence," BCSO spokeswoman Rosanne Hughes said to reporters.
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Sources told KSAT 12 News that a man was planning a shooting attack at Port San Antonio but he shot and killed himself when he was pulled over by sheriff's deputies.
Oscar Balladares, Public Affairs Officer with the 502nd Air Base Wing, said a lockdown was in place Friday morning as a precaution, but said no threat was ever made. There were no details about why the lockdown was ordered.
Hughes said that an active duty Air Force personnel didn't show up for work Friday, but notified his office that he had left a package with letters inside it on his front porch. The man's co-workers went to his home in the 1400 block of Prarie Grass and found no one home, but found the package and the suicide note, Hughes said.
The man's supervisor called the Sheriff's Office to report the situation around 11:35 a.m., Hughes said.
A BCSO dispatcher pinged the man's phone to get his approximate location, which was behind a Target store on Westwood Loop and Wild Pine, Hughes said.
When deputies approached the man, he was armed with a gun, Hughes said. Despite efforts by deputies to have the man put the gun down and get out of his car, he shot and killed himself.
The man's name has not been released until his family is notified.
SAPD and BCSO continue to investigate the incident.