SAN ANTONIO – A 19-year-old is recovering after being shot while defending a woman struggling with an armed man near San Pedro Springs Park, San Antonio police said.
It happened around 1:20 a.m. Sunday in the 600 block of W Myrtle Street on the city’s North Side.
Police said a man made advances at a 37-year-old woman with a knife in his hand when a struggle began, and she was cut on her finger.
A 19-year-old heard the struggle and jumped in to defend her, fighting the man.
During the fight, the man grabbed a gun and shot the teen in the foot before fleeing through a drainage ditch.
Both the teen and woman had non-life-threatening injuries, but the teen was taken to the hospital.
SAPD searched the area for the man but was unable to locate him.
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