Wanted man critically injured after allegedly firing at undercover officers on West Side – WOAI

Wanted man critically injured after allegedly firing at undercover officers on West Side  WOAI

SAN ANTONIO – A man wanted on drug charges was critically injured Sunday evening after a confrontation with undercover San Antonio Police officers erupted into gunfire, setting off a chaotic chain of events that ended with a crash, a foot chase and several vehicles caught in the crossfire. The shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. near Marbach Road and Horal Drive on the city's West Side, where several vehicles were caught in the crossfire. San Antonio Police Chief Jesse Salame said four undercover officers had been following the 31-year-old man as part of an operation to arrest him on a felony drug warrant. The officers had tracked the man to several locations, including a hotel and a gas station, while working to confirm his identity before bringing in uniformed officers to make the arrest.

I don't know the time period exactly, but I know that they had been to several different locations," Salame said. "They had tracked him to a hotel, to a gas station, and they were trying to establish that it was in fact him before they called in the uniformed resources to take him into custody. But the operation took a dangerous turn when the man apparently realized he was being followed. "At some point, the suspect realized that he was being followed," Salame said. The man allegedly