{"id":108626,"date":"2025-01-23T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/7-cops-shot-one-after-the-other-while-responding-to-call-for-help-from-apartment\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:03:44","slug":"7-cops-shot-one-after-the-other-while-responding-to-call-for-help-from-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/7-cops-shot-one-after-the-other-while-responding-to-call-for-help-from-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"7 cops shot one after the other while responding to call for help from apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-23\/GETTYRF_8822_policelights%20%282%29.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Douglas Sacha\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(SAN ANTONIO) &#8212; Seven police officers have been shot one after the other after responding to a call made from inside a home in San Antonio, Texas, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred Wednesday evening when police officers received a call from an apartment in San Antonio, Texas, from somebody reporting that their family member was in distress and needed immediate help, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>However, as police responded to the scene, they were shot one after the other in succession, according to San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus.<\/p>\n<p>The first officer who responded was shot in the lower extremities with the second officer shot shortly after, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A third responding officer subsequently arrived on scene and was shot before the last officer responded and was struck by a bullet in the upper torso, police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were given on the other three.<\/p>\n<p>All of the officers were immediately taken to the hospital where they are being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The identities of the police officers involved have not yet been released but McManus said that each of them had between four to eight years of experience on the force.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect &#8212; a male in his 40s &#8212; has also not yet been identified but police said they are working on trying to get the person out of the apartment with the assistance of a SWAT team.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the suspect involved in the shooting had been arrested on Jan. 18 for two charges of assault and a one DWI charge. He was currently out on bond, McManus said.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was made available and the investigation is currently ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Sacha\/Getty Images (SAN ANTONIO) &#8212; Seven police officers have been shot one after the other after responding to a call made from inside a home in San Antonio, Texas, police said. The incident occurred Wednesday evening when police officers received a call from an apartment in San Antonio, Texas,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/7-cops-shot-one-after-the-other-while-responding-to-call-for-help-from-apartment\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}