SAN ANTONIO — One man has been shot and killed after he tried to take a gun away from a park police officer Sunday morning on the west side, according to SAPD Chief William McManus.
The incident occurred on the 3400 block of Buena Vista Street around 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
Chief McManus said a call for a disturbance came between a man and a woman who are reportedly a couple and were at the park.
When officers arrived, the man ran jumped into a backyard of a nearby neighborhood. Then when the officer caught up to him a struggle began while trying to arrest him, SAPD says.
Chief McManus said a second officer came to assist and they tried to taze him but had no effect. The man tried to take a gun from one of the officers and that’s when the officer cried out for cover and a second officer shot and killed him, according to McManus.
Officials say the man was in his late 20s with four outstanding warrants.
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