SAPD: Man shoots self during South Side police chase

A man is in critical condition after he shot himself while being chased by police responding to a call that a woman was in danger Friday afternoon on the South Side, according to authorities.

Officer Douglas Greene, a San Antonio Police Department spokesman, said police received the call from concerned family members about 2:30 p.m.

The family told police she was in a dating relationship with the man, who is in his 20s. Relatives tracked her phone to the South Side about 4 p.m. and sent the location to police, Greene said.

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An officer found her driving a vehicle with the man in the passenger seat in the 200 block of East Southcross.

“We just happened to have a police officer in the area that saw the car,” he said.

When the officer pulled over the vehicle, the man jumped out and fled. He was hopping fences to evade police until he reached the backyard of a home in the 300 block of Kendalia Avenue, Greene said.

He then pulled out a handgun and shot himself in the upper body, police said.

The man was taken to an area hospital in critical condition, Greene said.

No officers were injured in the incident, he added.

The man has at least one felony warrant for his arrest, Greene said. Detectives are still working to determine what charges the man will face in Friday’s incident.

Police said the woman is now safe with police.

“The family did the right thing. They had an inkling that something was wrong, and they called SAPD to at least do a check on them,” Greene said.

Jacob Beltran is a reporter covering San Antonio and Bexar County. Read him on our free site, mySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com. | jbeltran@express-news.net | Twitter: @JBfromSA