{"id":429702,"date":"2021-04-15T21:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T01:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=429702"},"modified":"2021-04-15T21:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T01:50:38","slug":"officer-shoots-kills-man-who-opened-fire-on-san-antonio-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officer-shoots-kills-man-who-opened-fire-on-san-antonio-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer shoots, kills man who opened fire on San Antonio Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fofficer-shoots-kills-man-who-opened-fire-on-san-antonio-airport%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=429702&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2398506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2398506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Michael Ciaglo\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:40 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, April 15, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>An active shooter was killed after shots were fired at the San Antonio International Airport. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2021\/04\/15\/san-antonio-international-airport-evacuated-on-lockdown-after-shooting-sapd-says\/\">reports<\/a>, police said they received a call of a vehicle driving on the wrong side of the road at Terminal B. A Park Police officer, who was working overtime at the airport, then confronted the driver.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is a confirmed officer-involved shooting at 9800 Airport Blvd. There is no active threat to the public. As a precaution, the Airport has been put on lock down. No other injuries are reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Antonio PD (@SATXPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SATXPolice\/status\/1382782906964185091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Police stated the suspect then jumped out of the vehicle and began firing at the Park Police officer and into the terminal behind him, as well. The officer returned fire and the suspect, whose name has not yet been disclosed, was later pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: A man was shot to death by officers after he opened fire at the San Antonio International Airport today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O2rLiX54to\">https:\/\/t.co\/O2rLiX54to<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/khou11?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#khou11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KHOU\/status\/1382812895042502661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Officials have said they have a history with the suspect and believe mental health issues may have played a factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officer who stopped this saved a lot of lives because this guy had a full box of ammunition,\u201d San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said. \u201cHe had a .45 caliber handgun that he was shooting in the direction of the terminal at the police officer, and behind him indiscriminately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the lower level of the airport will remain closed as they look further into a possible motive.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/chicago-police-release-footage-in-fatal-shooting-of-13-year-old-boy\/\">Chicago Police Release Footage In Fatal Shooting Of 13-Year-Old Boy<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Michael Ciaglo\/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 6:40 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, April 15, 2021 An active shooter was killed after shots were fired at the San Antonio International Airport. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276073,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}