ATV modified to help wounded vet hunt stolen in San Antonio

Eric Edmundson sits between his parents in his ATV, which was stolen in San Antonio. Eric Edmundson sits between his parents in his ATV, which was stolen in San Antonio. Photo: Courtesy Photo Photo: Courtesy Photo Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close ATV modified to help wounded vet hunt stolen in San Antonio 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A modified ATV that has allowed a wounded veteran to hunt “from the swamps of Florida to the mountains of Utah” was stolen in San Antonio last week, the veteran's father said.

Now, the San Antonio Police Department is asking the public for help finding it.

Eric Edmundson, 33, a medically retired Army sergeant who was injured in Iraq in 2005, had been traveling through Texas hunting boar with his parents. But when the Edmundsons, who live in North Carolina, were passing through San Antonio, the ATV and the trailer it was on were stolen from their hotel parking lot Thursday night or early Friday .

The ATV is a 2008 Polaris Ranger RZR. It was on an aluminum trailer. The Edmundsons were staying at the La Quinta Inn on Utex Boulevard off of Interstate 10, just inside Loop 1604 on the Northwest side, said Eric's father, Ed Edmundson.

“He was supposed to do a deer-hog hunt tomorrow, but we had to cancel it,” Ed Edmundson said. They are now on their way back to North Carolina.

Eric Edmundson was driving a vehicle in Iraq near the Syrian border in October 2005 when an improvised explosive device detonated. Eric suffered a traumatic brain injury and, a few days later, a heart attack, his father said. He cannot walk or talk and has limited use of his limbs, but the ATV had been modified to enable him to hunt.

“He worked real hard in rehab to be able to do things to get back into hunting,” Ed Edmundson said about his son, who has been an avid hunter all his life.

An adaptive shooting system that helps Eric hunt was in a truck and was not stolen, the father said.

Eric Edmundson is married and has two children, ages 9 and 2.

Anyone with information about the ATV is asked to call the police department's vehicle crimes unit at 210-207-7345 or Crimestoppers at 210-224-STOP.

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