Man, 2 Texas deputies injured in daylong standoff, elderly woman found dead in house
Two deputies have been injured in a daylong standoff with a man barricaded in a San Antonio house full of propane tanks.
The standoff began around 7 p.m. Tuesday, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said, when deputies went to the northwest San Antonio home to perform a welfare check on a woman in her 80s and serve a mental-health warrant on a man in his 60s. Their names have not been released.
After more than 24 hours, the standoff ended shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday. The man, who was injured, was taken into custody, the sheriff’s office said.
The body of the elderly woman was found inside the home.
When deputies entered the house they were met with gunfire, Sheriff Javier Salazar said at a news conference, but were protected by a tactical shield and retreated.
Negotiators were able to make contact with the man for only a short time, Salazar said, and he then came out of the house to fire at deputies. No one was struck at that point.
Overnight, a SWAT team entered the home in an attempt to remove the elderly woman from the situation, Salazar said, but they were again met with gunfire. Two deputies suffered minor injuries from shrapnel.
Salazar said Wednesday that deputies saw propane tanks set up around the home and that the man was shooting at them in an attempt to cause an explosion.
“Thankfully, they did not detonate,” he said.
The man also disabled a robot that was sent into the house, the sheriff said.
Salazar had pleaded publicly for the man to release the elderly woman, who he said was in poor health.
According to the San Antonio Express-News, authorities have visited the home 27 times in the past year, and paramedics have been there a dozen times since April. Neighbors have been asked to leave the area during the standoff.
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