SAN ANTONIO – A person is dead and two people were injured after being shot by a family member inside a West Side apartment, according to San Antonio police.
The shooting happened at an apartment complex in the 300 block of Altitude Drive, not far from Loop 410 and U.S. Highway 90, around 10:50 p.m. Sunday.
Officers at the scene said a 40-year-old man shot three people in the head inside one of the apartments.
The man then fled from the apartment in a truck with three children after the shooting. One child was left in the apartment, an SAPD preliminary report said.
All three victims were taken to the hospital in critical condition. One of them, a 22-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.
Officers later located and stopped the vehicle. The man was taken into custody, and the three children in the vehicle were unharmed.
Police said the man could potentially face murder and aggravated assault charges.
The two women, ages 28 and 21, remain in critical condition, police said.
Officers at the scene said the victims were related to the suspect. The man who died was the suspect’s son, police said.
Details about what led up to the shooting are unclear.
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