Another killing in 2 days in the same neighborhood.
Gang-related? Drug-related?
Who knows but it is frightening to those who live there, I am sure.
1 killed in second North Side neighborhood shooting
By David Saleh Rauf and Alejandro Martinez Cabrera - Express-News
By David Saleh Rauf and Alejandro Martinez Cabrera - Express-News
Police late Tuesday evening are investigating a fatal shooting in a North Side neighborhood where gunshots rang out for the second consecutive night.
About 9:15 p.m., San Antonio police responded to a shooting in the 11100 block of Baywood Drive, where they found a man dead outside his residence with multiple gunshot wounds.
He was not identified, and police did not immediately provide a motive for the shooting.
Tuesday’s gunplay in the neighborhood just north of Castle Hills follows a Monday evening drive-by that left one man critically wounded.
About 22 hours before Tuesday evening’s shooting, a 35-year-old man was shot as he walked with his wife in the 11200 block of Belair Drive, just one block away from Tuesday's shooting.
In Monday's incident, police said a gunman fired four rifle rounds from the bed of a pickup just before midnight, hitting the man once in his upper right leg. The man was taken to University Hospital, where his condition was downgraded to critical as of 5 a.m. Tuesday, Capt. Cris Andersen said.
In Monday's incident, police said a gunman fired four rifle rounds from the bed of a pickup just before midnight, hitting the man once in his upper right leg. The man was taken to University Hospital, where his condition was downgraded to critical as of 5 a.m. Tuesday, Capt. Cris Andersen said.
While the motive behind Tuesday’s shooting is unclear, police believe Monday’s could be gang-related. A witness to that shooting told police they heard one of the four men in the pickup scream what police believe is a gang nickname as it drove off, Andersen said.
Prior to this week’s spate of shootings, the neighborhood has had some serious incidents in the past, Andersen said.
Prior to this week’s spate of shootings, the neighborhood has had some serious incidents in the past, Andersen said.
In mid-July, a 6-month-old infant was critically wounded in a drive-by shooting. In that incident, a gunman fired 10 rounds with a .22-caliber pistol from a moving vehicle, striking Mya Isabella Baxter once in her side as she lay in a stroller.
Police later arrested and charged Jeremy David Mendoza, 17, with injury to a child in connection with the girl's shooting.
“The gunfire has been an ongoing occurrence,” said Timothy Martin, a resident of the neighborhood, after Monday’s shooting.
“The gunfire has been an ongoing occurrence,” said Timothy Martin, a resident of the neighborhood, after Monday’s shooting.
