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San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
San Antonio police respond to a hostage-turned-standoff situation at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora Street on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017.
SAN ANTONIO — Police in a standoff situation on the West Side Monday have evacuated most of the building where an armed man is holed up.
According to Sgt. Jesse Salame, officers received calls about a man armed with a handgun who was beating and choking a woman around 4 a.m. at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of South Zarzamora St.
Officers arrived shortly thereafter and met the woman who had made the call. She told officers that she and another woman, who police believe is either the suspect’s girlfriend or recently separated ex-girlfriend, were sleeping when the man entered the apartment and began beating her.
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She was able to make it outside, but the other woman was held hostage for a time by the suspect inside the apartment, police said.
“We could hear activity and movement, so we knew they were inside,” Salame said.
Later, the suspect tried to escape out a backdoor of the apartment, at which point his hostage escaped, Salame said. The suspect was not successful in his escape attempt.
Police are now trying to coax the barricaded suspect out of the apartment by communicating with him through a bullhorn.
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No one was injured in the incident, police said. The women are now being questioned by police.
Salame said that police evacuated most of the building where the barricaded person is located.
The apartment complex is located just northwest of Storm Elementary School. Officials have said the school is not on lockdown.
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