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Neighborhood healing, making repairs after 7 SAPD officers injured in Stone Oak shooting

Gunfire caused damage to several units at Sonterra Heights apartments

SAN ANTONIO – Seven San Antonio police officers who were wounded this week during a gun battle with an armed man are all on the road to recovery.

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An SAPD spokesman said Friday afternoon that all but one of the officers has been released from a hospital.

Police identified the officers as Jesus Hilario-Marquez, Kyle Rainey, Dean Rosetta, Jacob Barcena, Ryan O’Hara, William Perez and Jorge Ramos.

SAPD said they all have between three and seven years of service with the department.

Police identified the gunman earlier this week as Brandon Scott Poulos, 46.

Booking photo for Brandon Poulos (Bexar County Jail)

A report from the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office shows Poulos died from multiple gunshot wounds. His death was ruled a homicide.

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According to a preliminary SAPD report, Poulos began firing at officers around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday after they showed up at the Sonterra Heights apartments, located near Stone Oak Parkway and Loop 1604.

The first responding officers were answering what began as a call for a suicide in progress.

Boards cover a shattered window on the apartment where the shooting happened. (Copyright 2024 by KSAT - All rights reserved.)

SAPD then had calls for shots being fired.

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During the confrontation and ensuing hours-long standoff, neighbors ducked for cover from the gunfire.

“My two neighbors on the second floor that face this way, they were able to come and stay in my apartment with us,” Maria Villalobos said, gesturing toward the building where the shooting happened.

Villalobos said while she felt she was out of harm’s way physically, the thought of what happened affected her mentally.

“It’s a horrible situation,” she said, “So, my thoughts and prayers for his family and everyone affected.”

The shooting also left visible damage on the building.

What appear to be pock marks created by birdshot cover a wall near a forgotten police evidence marker. (Copyright 2024 by KSAT - All rights reserved.)

Pockmarks and bullet holes dot the walls, and the windows in the directly impacted apartment are shattered.

The whole unit was boarded up until Friday morning when relatives of Poulus showed up and asked to be allowed inside.

At least one other apartment unit nearby also sustained damage.

A resident from the apartment complex said his apartment was flooded, seemingly from a burst water pipe.

A member of a restoration crew surveys the water damage done to an adjoining apartment. (Copyright 2024 by KSAT - All rights reserved.)

By mid-morning, a crew with a restoration company had arrived at the property to make repairs.

People who live there, meanwhile, are doing their best to heal.

“We just, kind of, checked on each other and made sure we were feeling OK,” Villalobos said. “(We’re) a little shaken up. I mean, it’s not every day that you go through something like this.”

The common hope among the residents is that they never have to go through anything like that again.

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Katrina Webber joined KSAT 12 in December 2009. She reports for Good Morning San Antonio. Katrina was born and raised in Queens, NY, but after living in Gulf Coast states for the past decade, she feels right at home in Texas. It's not unusual to find her singing karaoke or leading a song with her church choir when she's not on-air.

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