Nov 2023. Blues Vol 39 No. 11

AROUND THE COUNTRY
SAN ANTONIO, TX.
Two San Antonio police officers are now reported to be in stable
condition after being shot October 19th when they responded to
the report of a domestic disturbance.
SAN ANTONIO, TX. - Two San
Antonio, Texas, police officers
are now reported to be in stable
condition after being shot
Thursday, October 19th when
they responded to the report of a
domestic disturbance. Including
these two officers, the San Antonio
Police Department reports
seven officers have been shot in
the line of duty in the last two
months.
Chief William P. McManus
provided details of the shooting
during a media briefing Thursday
night and said the two officers
were responding to a family
disturbance call and arrived at
about the same time.
“These types of calls are very,
very volatile, very dangerous,
because of the emotion involved
in many, many cases,” the chief
said. “And this was one of those
cases where the officers were
very luck they were not killed.
The chief said a man had come
to the home to retrieve his children
and at some point, became
involved in an altercation with a
female and started dousing the
house with gasoline and threatened
to set it on fire.
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Upon arrival, one officer was
standing in the middle of the
cul-de-sac and communicating
with dispatch when he was shot
three times. That officer went
down in the cul-de-sac, the
chief said. The other officer was
also shot, once.
After wounding the two officers,
the suspect went inside,
headed to the second floor, and
began firing out of a window
with a long gun.
The second officer retrieved
his rifle from his vehicle and
returned fire while taking cover
behind a vehicle next door.
While returning fire at the suspect,
the officer was able to
move and create more distance.
Other officers arrived, responding
into what the chief called “a
very hot zone.”
“They were able to extract the
officer who was down in the
cul-de-sac, and they were able
to extract the other officer, who
was pinned down under another
vehicle,” McManus said. “By the
time they got them out, the suspect
came out and gave himself
up and was taken into custody.”
Jesus Prado, 40, was arrested
and charged with two counts of
attempted capital murder of a
police officer and one count of
deadly conduct, reported KSAT.
His bonds total $3 million.