Police in San Antonio, Texas said that a suspect is dead after seven police officers were shot and injured when responding to a call late Wednesday regarding a family member in distress and needing immediate help at an apartment complex.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said that police arrived at the scene at the apartment complex in the northern portion of the city after receiving a call from a family to report a “suicide in progress.” The first group of officers were fired upon in succession when they arrived, with six more officers injured while barricading the property. The suspect was found shot dead in the apartment after a standoff for several hours, McManus said, adding that authorities are still investigating whether it was self-inflicted or from the SWAT team that was called in. Chief McManus said at a press conferenc: “SWAT arrived on the scene and the suspect barricaded himself inside the apartment for several hours. At the end of the event the suspect was found to be deceased, we don’t know if he was shot by a self-inflicted wound or whether or not he was shot by SWAT officers.”
The identities of the police officers involved have not yet been released, but Chief McManus said that each of them had between four to eight years of experience on the force. All of the officers are being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
The suspect, identified as 46-year-old Brandon Scott Poulos, had been arrested on Jan. 18 on two counts of assault and one count of DWI, but was released from the Bexar County Jail on bail.
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