Police Responding to Reports of Shots Fired at San Antonio Mall

Police Responding to Reports of Shots Fired at San Antonio Mall
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Jack Phillips
1/24/2017
Updated:
1/24/2017

Police in San Antonio are responding to reports of shots fired at  on Tuesday morning, and they’re searching for a suspect.

MySanAntonio.com reported that a masked man attempted to rob a group of women inside the mall at around 11:30 a.m. local time.

Police noted that it’s unclear if shots were actually fired. It’s also unclear if the mall was placed on lockdown, according to the local news website. A nearby high school, Holmes High School, was locked down.

According to News 4 San Antonio, police said a woman and her mother were approached by “two Hispanic males in a green SUV who were wearing handkerchiefs over their faces.”

The men jumped out of their vehicle and pointed guns at them and said they were “going to kill [them],” it was reported.

Witnesses told police they heard gunshots.

The two women were not injured---just shaken up, the report stated.

The incident follows a similar one when a robbery-gone-bad at San Antonio’s Rolling Oaks Mall left one person dead and several injured earlier this week.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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