Cops Shoot and Kill Man that Open Fire on News Crew

KSAT (San Antonio) Reporter Dillon Collier and Photographer Joshua Saunders were reporting on the scene of an earlier house fire.

When they arrived at the scene, a man was digging threw the burned out house with a large stick.

The news crew started interviewing members of the family of the burned out home, when the man who had been digging through rubble emerged from the home with two handguns and began to shoot at Collier, Saunders, and the family members.

He fired several bullets at the journalists, who ran on foot, and the family, who took off in an SUV.

The station says that the man then took off on a bicycle and made his way into a home down the street, where he barricaded himself inside another home.

“There were a number of people in that house,” San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Monday following the standoff. “Apparently he knows some folks who were in there. Those individuals, we were able to get them out.”

At one point, the suspect left the home and entered an air-conditioned shed in the backyard, McManus said.

“The officers decided to try and lock him out of the house at that point,” McManus said.

The suspect allegedly saw the officers through the screen door of the house and shot at them. Five officers returned fire, killing the shooter, McManus said.

McManus said the suspect was in “close range” of the officers when gunfire was exchanged.