The incident happened just before 4 a.m. in the Bluffs at Westchase neighborhood off Eckert and Bandera roads.
SAN ANTONIO — Neighbors on the northwest side are keeping extra vigilant after an armed suspect was caught on camera prowling around the community and trying to unlock vehicles.
Dalton Gray was getting ready for work around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday when he checked his phone’s surveillance video app, which indicates there was some activity in the driveway.
This happened in the Bluffs at Westchase neighborhood off Eckert and Bandera roads just before 4 a.m.
“Definitely alarming. Checked my phone and saw there was a person at our front door,” Gray said. “Had a gun in his head, checked the passenger’s side of my car, the driver’s side of my wife’s car.”
When the flood light activated, the hooded suspect appeared to point the gun toward himself while trying to unlock one of the cars before moving on.
“I was just about to leave for work like 40 minutes after that so a little bit earlier, I could have confronted him,” Gray said.
Anton Jones always locks his car and makes sure any valuables are kept out of the vehicle. But after what happened, he’s doing double duty.
“That could have led to something way worse than just checking the car and moving on,” Jones said. “We want to feel safe, we want to feel like we can go on walks without having to check over our shoulders. Someone coming in with a gun, it shows that people really don’t care. Now we’re going to have to doublecheck everything every time, make sure that even the spare change is gone.”
As for Gray, he did not report the incident to police. However, he wants everyone to keep a lookout for the hooded suspect.