7 Police Officers Shot While Responding to 'Suicide in Progress' Call in Texas, Authorities Say

Mar. 15, 2025

Seven police officers responding to “a suicide in progress” call have been shot in Texas, authorities have confirmed.

“Officers were initially responding to a suicide in progress. The first officer arrived after a family member called police,” authorities said.

According to local media outletWOAI, the shootings started just before 9 p.m. local time.

A photo of a San Antonio Police Department car.Moab Replublic/Shutterstock

Moab Replublic/Shutterstock

The officers who were shot were transported to the hospital with “non-life threatening injuries,” according to police, who added that the officers affected had “4-8 years on [the] department.”

While later giving reporters an update on the situation, SAPD Chief William P. McManus saidin a videoshared on Facebook that “the first officer arrived, was shot, and six others subsequent to that were shot as well.”

A stock photo of police tape.Getty

Getty

“SWAT arrived on the scene, the suspect barricaded himself inside the apartment for several hours,” McManus said.

Officers are pictured at the scene of the shooting in San Antonio, Texas.KENS 5

KENS 5

McManus confirmed the suspect, who has not been named, had three arrests on Jan. 18 and was facing charges of two counts of assault and one count of driving while intoxicated, adding that he “was out on bond at the time.”

The police chief said in aprevious Facebook videothat those in the apartment complex that could be safely moved amid the incident were evacuated.

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While speaking toCBS-affiliated local stationKENS 5, complex resident Joseph Loredo said, “I just heard a loud pop; it was like a single pop. I didn’t think much of it and my mom is living with me so she told me to come outside the balcony because she heard a lot of noise.”

“Sure enough, when we go outside the balcony, we hear a bunch of helicopters. And then literally 20 seconds after we were out there, we heard more shots. It was like two or three shots. I told my mom, ‘Hey mom, those are gunshots,’ " Loredo added.

source: people.com