SAN ANTONIO – Shavonn Price, 40, has been identified as the shooter in the standoff that occurred Thursday afternoon in San Antonio.
A 13-year-old boy, one of two people who was shot just ahead of an hourslong standoff in West Bexar County Thursday, is a student at nearby Scobee Middle School.
Janice Hernandez, the communications director for the Southwest Independent School District, confirmed counselors would be available for students at the boy’s school Friday, as well as at two other elementary schools that had been placed on lockdown during the violence.
According to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, a man who lives in the 2900 block of Ash Field Drive took aim at the teen and a 36-year-old woman.
A neighbor who asked not to be identified, says she saw Price chasing the teen and shooting at him.
“Next thing I heard and saw was this little boy running out of the house, saying, 'Help me! Help me! He's trying to kill me,” she said. “And (the suspect) zigzagged around, and he ran and finally he caught him and shot him, in the back and in the head.”
Deputies found both victims outside the home when they arrived around 3:30 p.m.
Both were airlifted to a hospital for treatment.
As of Friday morning, the boy was still in critical condition while the woman was stable.
The neighbor says the woman is the mother of the wounded teen.
She says the woman ran to her home looking for help and left a trail of blood in her driveway.
The neighbor says the woman told her the shooting started after an all-day argument surrounding the son’s attendance at school.
“The son that he wanted to kill didn't want to go to school,” the neighbor said. “And he wanted him to go to school.”
Price was believed to have been barricaded inside the home for hours.
Negotiators tried repeatedly to reach him throughout the afternoon Thursday but were not successful.
The Sheriff’s Office later deployed a drone, then a robot to give them a better look inside the home.
Shortly after 8:30 p.m., Sheriff Javier Salazar announced that deputies had determined the man was dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
During the violence and standoff, two elementary schools nearby -- Kriewald Road and Big Country -- were placed on lockdown.
“At the time, we were doing release of our students,” said Janice Hernandez, the communications director for Southwest ISD. “So those students that were still at the campus were able to stay at the campus until their parents signed them out.”
Hernandez says the school district did everything it could to inform parents while also helping students feel safe.
She says the counselors on campus should help continue that effort.
“To talk to them about the situation and make sure that they understand what took place,” she said.