Retaliation cited in shooting at Northeast Side home

San Antonio police work the scene of a shooting early Wednesday morning on Quail Creek on the Northeast Side. San Antonio police work the scene of a shooting early Wednesday morning on Quail Creek on the Northeast Side. Photo: JOHN DAVENPORT, San Antonio Express-News Photo: JOHN DAVENPORT, San Antonio Express-News Image 1 of / 11 Caption Close Retaliation cited in shooting at Northeast Side home 1 / 11 Back to Gallery

Shooters late Monday targeted a Northeast Side home where a homeowner had fatally shot a suspected burglar last week, San Antonio police said.

Around 10 p.m. Monday, people house-sitting for the homeowner saw a convoy of vehicles approach the residence in the 8200 block of Quail Creek Drive, an SAPD incident report states. People inside the vehicles were shouting, witnesses said, and music was playing loudly.

The vehicles, including a red Ford Mustang, shined their headlights at the home just before seven shots were fired. No one was injured but bullets struck a parked vehicle, a tree in the front yard and the home's façade.

One .380-caliber bullet was found beneath a mattress inside the home, police said.

The homeowner, 27, wasn't there because he remains hospitalized at San Antonio Military Medical Center after last week's home invasion in which he killed one man and wounded another with a shotgun.

SAPD has asked news media not to release his name for fear of retaliation. He had grabbed a shotgun and confronted two men entering his home after hearing banging on his front door, then noise in his garage around 4:40 a.m. last Wednesday. When the homeowner opened fire, at least one of the intruders shot back, wounding the homeowner in the chin.

Khalfani Baskin, 18, was fatally shot, and Adrian Shawn Miller, 24, was injured. Miller was booked by proxy and a day later was transferred to Bexar County Jail, facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, burglary of a habitation and evading arrest.

Police said Monday night's shooting was likely in retaliation for Wednesday's shooting.

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“The shots that were fired appeared to be directed at the listed address where the home invasion occurred,” the report states, and the shooters attempted to “intimidate/cause bodily harm/kill the occupants of the residence.”

The incidents have startled neighbors, who describe the street as typically quiet.

“I heard ‘pop, pop, pop, pop,' and I ran outside; all the neighbors came out,” said Rosalba Fletcher, who lives two houses away. “We're very uncomfortable. Everybody is getting prepared for whatever comes next.”

Fletcher said neighbors are trying to be more aware of unusual people or vehicles in the neighborhood.

Police stopped a vehicle stopped in the 2300 block of Austin Highway that matched the description of one seen at Monday night's shooting and detained two men for questioning, but neither was arrested in connection with the shooting, according to an SAPD spokeswoman.

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