SAPD responds to thousands of domestic violence-related calls each year, and they’re some of the most dangerous calls officers respond to every day.
-related calls each year, and they’re some of the most dangerous calls officers respond to every day.
A resident of the home, where one of the injured ofcs had taken cover, helped him by applying a tourniquet. At the hosp, that ofc asked if we could recognize the person who helped him & “was his partner OK?” That ofc and all the ofcs involved were heros last night!Thursday night, two San Antonio police officers were shot while responding to a call for domestic violence on the city’s Northeast Side.
The chief says they were called when 40-year-old Jesus Prado allegedly came to pick up his children and got into a fight with his wife.McManus says Prado started dumping gasoline in the home. When officers arrived, Prado began shooting at them.SAPD provided KSAT Investigates data on Monday. Between 2022 and so far in 2023, there have been 67,895 calls for domestic or family violence, 2,328 of which involved a weapon like a gun or a knife.
“It’s been constant. It’s not something new that’s arisen today or yesterday,” said Capt. Rene Gallegos with the Special Victims Unit.
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