SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Police officer who officials say was stabbed in the face by a shoplifting suspect at a northwest-side H-E-B has been released from the hospital.
Corey Rogers, 28, has been with SAPD for four years. He was responding to calls of a shoplifting incident at the Fredericksburg Road H-E-B location Friday afternoon when the suspect engaged in a "vicious attack," as Chief William McManus referred to it, using a seven-inch knife to stab Rogers in the face.
The suspect, identified as 61-year-old Major Baldwin, was eventually shot dead by Rogers and another off-duty officer from Floresville who happened to be at the store at the time.
According to Bexar County court records, Baldwin has faced charges of murder and attempted murder in the past, but he was never convicted of those charges. Court records indicate Baldwin has also been arrested several other times, accused of other violent crimes.
San Antonio Police said Baldwin was wanted for allegedly attacking two people with a hammer and sending them to the hospital in February of this year.
Meanwhile, a 28-year-old H-E-B employee who authorities say was also stabbed by the suspect in an attempt to help Rogers remains in the hospital as of Saturday evening.