SAPD

Bond has been set at $3 million dollars for a 40-year-old San Antonio man on charges related to the wounding of two police officers during a shootout on the Northeast Side Thursday night.

The mural includes a list of names of the people who have died in police interactions along with images of Baltasar Rodriguez, who died in 2021 and whose friends designed the mural.

San Antonio's top two crime fighters shook hands in public Monday evening at a far West Side Catholic church following a well-publicized dispute over the root causes of a rash of shootings.

San Antonio’s police budget for 2024 will increase 8% to $570 million and add the largest number of police officers seen in a single year. However, scrutiny has come over where some of that spending is going amid calls for more support for mental health calls.

The 40-year-old man crashed into one of the SAPD patrol units and another car. He then got out and started shooting at police and other drivers on the highway main lanes while trying to carjack them. One officer was wounded before police shot and killed the suspect.

16.5% of SAPD’s 97 police shootings in the seven-year period were of Black San Antonians. Black residents made up roughly 7% of the city’s population during the period.

San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Thursday evening that a suspect who shot two officers and led dozens of police cars on a chase across the city has been arrested.

Three SAPD officers were charged with murder after shooting and killing Melissa Perez in her apartment in June. Perez had schizophrenia; now, families of others with severe mental illnesses worry their loved ones are at risk too.

The review of Johnson’s autopsy report came 16 months after he was shot and killed by SAPD officers during an attempted arrest.

Johnson was killed by SAPD officers last March. His mother, Arlene Garcia, said she’s tried to view her son’s autopsy for over a year without success. Now, she has the chance.