Several gunshots were fired at the San Antonio Police Department headquarters at 10 p.m. Saturday, July 9, during a hectic period amid the recent police shootings in nearby Dallas that have the nation on edge.
“It’s alarming right now,” San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told said in a video posted to the department’s Facebook page. “It’s not the first time our building has been shot at, but it’s too coincidental that it’s around the time that officers are being threatened around the country.”
Several officers were inside when the shots struck the upper floor of the building.
Police immediately canvassed the area, where they found a number of shell cases between the old Public Safety Headquarters and a restaurant.
The SAPD bomb squad also checked a car near the crime scene that they believed that was connected to the shooting.
Police do have a suspect description: police are currently looking for a person wearing an orange shirt and blue pants that was seen running away from the police building.
The incident did not result in any injuries, said McManus.
“It’s been shot at before, but not in close relationship with anything like what’s happened in Dallas, and we are not going to be targets,” McManus said, according to a video posted onto the police department’s Facebook. “We are not going to allow our officers to be targets. This is not open season on police officers here in San Antonio or anywhere else. We’re not going to allow that to happen.”
