SAN ANTONIO – A 39-year-old man was wounded in the neck after a shooting on the city’s South Side early Tuesday morning, San Antonio police said.
Officers were called just before 12:30 a.m. to the 800 block of West Hutchins Place, not far from Commercial Avenue after receiving word of a person wounded.
According to police, the man was on the porch of an apartment when a gunshot was fired through the door from inside a home.
Police said the victim was either grazed by the bullet or some shrapnel from the door. The man was taken to University Hospital in stable condition.
SAPD said a man in his 50s who lives at the residence and a man in his 30s were both detained at the scene as possible suspects.
The 54-year-old man said he had recently been the victim of a home invasion where shots were fired and said that he heard a loud banging at his front door. The man said he became scared of being victimized again so he grabbed his shotgun, firing one round through the door.
SAPD said the man would not be arrested and was released from custody. The investigation in the shooting is ongoing.