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San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
San Antonio police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his late 20s in the groin on the city’s Northeast Side on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
SAN ANTOINO — Police are searching for at least one suspect who shot a man in the groin and fled Tuesday in a Northeast Side neighborhood.
Police received the shooting call around 10 a.m. in the 5100 block of Sierra Madre in the El Dorado neighborhood.
One victim, who is about 30-years old, was found at the scene in the front yard, with a gunshot wound to the groin, according to Ofc. Doug Greene, a spokesperson for the San Antonio Police Department.
First responders transported him to San Antonio Military Medical Center in stable condition.
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“He’s lucky,” Greene said. “If you get hit in the right artery you can bleed out quickly. I’ve seen it happen.”
Officers canvassed the neighborhood as they searched for the suspect, who remains on the loose and may be in a white, 4-door vehicle.
El Dorado Elementary School, which is in the area where the shooting took place, was not placed on lockdown, according to police on scene.
Greene said the suspect, a Hispanic man in his 30s or 40s, approached the victim, they spoke for a brief time and then the suspect shot the victim and fled.
Three witnesses were being held at the scene, though they were not under arrest or listed as suspects. Greene said both they and the victim weren’t cooperating with police, which is leading officers to believe there may be other criminal activity involved in the shooting.
“Their uncooperation is raising some red flags,” Greene said.
Police conducted a “protective sweep” of the home where the victim was shot, but did not find any evidence that led to the arrest of the three men being held at the scene, Greene said.
After holding them at the scene for about an hour and a half, officers took the three men to a police station for further questioning.
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