SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio police were in a standoff with a suspect who they say is tied to a deadly southwest-side shooting. However, when police entered the house Friday morning after more than12 hours, the suspect was not inside.
Authorities had been trying to talk the man out of a home on Humboldt and Ferndale Street near I-35 since 9:45 p.m. on Thursday.
Authorities said it all began at a taco truck on Southwest Military when two men began arguing. One of the men walked back to his Jeep to drive away when another man, identified as Roland Contreras Jr., fired a shot into the passenger side window, hitting a woman in the chest. Police said the suspect and the victim were in a relationship. At this time, they do not know if she was the intended target.
The man in the Jeep drove to a nearby gas station down the street. Police and Emergency Medical Services met them there, and pronounced the woman dead at the scene.
After the shooting, they say Contreras drove away. Police went to his home on Ferndale, and since then, they had been trying to get the man out of the house.
Investigators are also trying to figure out how the two men may have known each other.
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