San Antonio Police Department Officer Matthew Luckhurst has been fired after he gave a homeless person a fecal sandwich

A police officer in Texas has been fired after he gave a homeless person a fecal sandwich, officials say.

San Antonio Police Officer Matthew Luckhurst bragged to a fellow officer in May that he had picked up some feces, put it in between two slices of bread before placing the 'sandwich' in a Styrofoam container,My San Antonio reported.

He then sat the container next to a homeless man, police officials said.

The officer reported that he told Luckhurst, a five-year veteran of the force, to go back and throw away the container.

The officer said he watched Luckhurst go back and assumed that he threw it away, but it's not confirmed that he did.

Authorities searched for the homeless man, but have not found him as his identity is unknown.

Another officer reported Luckhurst's actions to his supervisor, who then notified internal affairs of the shocking incident in July.

The case was investigated and presented to both civilian and sworn review boards in October, which recommended that Luckhurst be placed on indefinite suspension from the police force.

Police officials said Luckhurst had been assigned to downtown bike patrol for about a year before he was fired this week.

Police Chief William McManus met with Luckhurst and said that 'type of behavior will never be tolerated.'

Another officer reported Luckhurst's actions to his supervisor, who then notified internal affairs of the shocking incident in July. Officials said he had been assigned to downtown bike patrol before he was fired this week (file photo of police headquarters)

Video courtesy of My San Antonio

'This was a vile and disgusting act that violates our guiding principles of 'treating all with integrity, compassion, fairness and respect,'' McManus said in a statement.

'The fact that his fellow officers were so disgusted with his actions that they reported him to internal affairs demonstrates that this type of behavior will never be tolerated.

'The action of this one former officer in no way reflects the actions of all the other good men and women who respectfully serve this community.'

In a statement, San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor said that the firing 'was the right thing to do.'

'His actions were a betrayal of every value we have in our community, and he is not representative of our great police force,' Taylor said.

Luckhurst reportedly plans to appeal the indefinite suspension and declined to comment.

His attorney, Ben Sifuentes, said that his Luckhurst never actually gave a homeless person an excrement sandwich, claiming that it was a joke.

'The 'joke' spiraled out of control, he said, and has turned is client into the subject of unfair persecution,' Sifuentes said. 'It didn't happen.'

He added that there are no eyewitnesses or video recordings to prove the incident is real.