SAN ANTONIO – The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said it is investigating what led up to the shooting of a 35-year-old woman outside an apparent vacant home Monday morning in southeast Bexar County. According to deputies, she was shot in the head.
A 67-year-old man with whom the woman is reportedly in a “romantic relationship” has been detained as a person of interest but has not been arrested.
BCSO was dispatched on a shooting call at the home at approximately 9:30 a.m. Monday in the 15500 block of Henze Road, which is not far from Interstate 37 and Southton Road.
Deputies discovered the woman injured in a Toyota truck in front of the house. A handgun was also found inside the vehicle.
However, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said the woman may have been shot elsewhere. Deputies said they were trying to determine where the exact location of the crime scene was.
As of Monday afternoon, the woman was still alive and undergoing surgery.
Neither the woman or man live at the home, Salazar said, but they were apparently at the property collecting scrap metal when they began to argue.
"At this point, we don’t have anybody saying that they saw him shoot her,“ Salazar said, ”just that there was an argument and then either, during the course of that argument or soon thereafter, gunshots were heard."
The man was cuffed and detained, and investigators are proceeding as if it’s a “distinct possibility he shot the woman,” Salazar said.
Two witnesses were also detained.
A neighbor, who did not want to be identified, confirmed to KSAT that the boarded-up home is vacant. However, she said people break down scrap metal on the property, leaving the non-recyclable trash behind.
Salazar said BCSO had discovered evidence that billboards were being brought to the property and dismantled.
The sheriff also said there was metal in the back, “where at least part of this argument took place.”
BCSO asked that nearby residents on Henze Road provide any video footage from the incident that can help the investigation, specifically asking for video or vehicles arriving or leaving the scene.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office can be reached at 210-335-6000.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
More recent crime coverage on KSAT: