In a report filed with the Texas attorney general’s office this week, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office acknowledged that a 30-year-old woman killed by deputies in Schertz last month did not have or display a gun.

An investigator with the Sheriff’s Office submitted the report to the attorney general’s office Monday, one month after four deputies opened fire on Amanda Lene Jones, a suspected car thief with a felony record, and accidentally killed a 6-year-old boy.

In the report, the investigator selected a box that says Jones “did not carry, exhibit or use a deadly weapon.” Several times in the report, he stated that she was carrying an “unknown object” that deputies feared was a handgun.

In a statement, the Sheriff’s Office confirmed that it does not believe that the suspect had a deadly weapon at the time of the shooting but that investigators have not “ruled out that she may have been in possession of and threatening deputies with a gun at some point prior to that.”

The Sheriff’s Office makes that same insinuation in the report, saying that the investigation is ongoing.

The incident began around 10:45 a.m. Dec. 21 after a man reported that his car had been stolen and that he knew where to find the suspect. Deputies found Jones hiding in a closet at a house, at which point she showed a gun and threatened to shoot a deputy, Sheriff Javier Salazar said at the time.

A nearly two-hour manhunt followed, at one point crossing Cibolo Creek. Jones ran to a mobile home park and broke into the child’s home. Deputies closed in on her as she stood on the porch.

“Jones verbally stated to these deputies that she had a gun and that she was going to shoot them,” the report states. “All four deputies saw an object in Jones’ hand as she pointed it at them. All four deputies then fired at Jones, causing ballistic injuries that resulted in her death at the scene.”

The report, which the attorney general’s office requires after an officer-involved injury or death, reveals that 6-year-old Kameron Prescott was standing in the front hallway when the shooting occurred and that he was hit by “fragments of a stray bullet.”

Kameron was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

This month, Salazar said his investigators were still actively looking for a gun and that they had recently sent a diving team into Cibolo Creek to see if Jones could have dropped it there.

On Friday, the Sheriff’s Office said a gun was not found in the creek. A spokesman did not respond to a question asking if investigators are still actively searching elsewhere.

Salazar has maintained that deputies saw a gun at other times during the chase, but in the report, it is referred to several times as an object that deputies “feared was a firearm.”

After the shooting, District Attorney Nico LaHood announced that his office would conduct a thorough investigation into the shooting. It is ongoing, along with a separate internal investigation by the Sheriff’s Office.

The four deputies involved in the shooting, who have between two and 27 years of experience, remain on administrative duty pending the outcome of the district attorney’s investigation.

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