On Sunday morning, a San Antonio police officer was killed after being shot twice in the head by an armed suspect who fled the scene shortly after the attack. The officer, a 20-year veteran of the police force, was blindsided as he was writing a ticket at a traffic stop near the south end of the city’s public safety building. He was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after the attack.
According to San Antonio Police Chief William McManus, the officer was killed execution-style in an apparent ambush. Police suspect that a man wearing black pants and a gray shirt pulled his vehicle, described as a Nissan or Toyota black sedan, behind the officer’s vehicle before emerging with a weapon. The armed assailant then casually walked up to the driver’s side of the officer’s window and began firing.
Acting as though he had just completed a morning errand, the gunman then stepped back into his vehicle and drove off through the parking lot of the San Antonio police headquarters.
While the police chief didn’t specify a motive for the vicious assassination, he alluded to the recent wave of attacks against police officers during a press conference informing the public of the Sunday morning tragedy.
“It’s happened here,” McManus stated ominously: “It’s everyone’s worst nightmare.”
The suspect is still at-large. Police are asking for the public’s help to find the cop killer. The suspect is believed to be between 5’7 and 6’0. He was wearing a gray shirt and black pants while committing his crime.
UPDATE: