SAN ANTONIO — The 42-year-old man shot and killed by officers Sunday in a northwest side neighborhood has been identified as Sachin Sahoo.
Police say Sahoo hit a woman with his car and tried to back into officers with the same car hours later. His family spoke with KENS 5 about his declining mental health.
Speaking through tears, Sahoo's ex-wife Leah Goldstein says he was a family man.
“He was a great dad, I was a stay at home mom for many years," she said. "He provided for us.”
Goldstein says Sahoo was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
“He suffered the past ten years with bipolar disorder," Goldstein said. "He also had symptoms of schizophrenia.”
She says – he’d get into manic episodes and wouldn’t continue taking his medication.
“He couldn’t understand what was wrong with him," she said. "He would hear voices. And hallucinate and just hear voices and just get stuck in his own mind.”
Saturday afternoon witnesses told police a man in a white BMW SUV came out of a nearby driveway, onto the sidewalk and hit a 51-year-old woman who police say was his roommate before taking off.
“He disappeared for a while," Goldstein said. "He called me. And he sounded scared. And I guess he went back to the house. Between that some officers had come to my apartment and I had told them all his history with mental illness and he didn’t have guns. He wasn’t normally a violent individual.”
Police say they tried to contact him - but he tried to leave - putting his SUV into reverse, backing it into two officers. That’s when one of the officers fatally shot Sahoo.
“They needed to take him to the hospital," she said. "He could’ve been taken to the hospital. But everything went wrong.”
Now Goldstein is left with pictures and memories of who she says was a ‘lovable and peaceful man'.
“So sorry that all of his dreams and passions," Goldstein said. "He couldn’t see them fulfilled. Because of his illness.”
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