Seven police officers were shot during an hourslong armed standoff after they responded to a "suicide in progress" call in San Antonio on Wednesday night, authorities said.
Police were called shortly before 8:30 p.m. CT for "a suicide in progress" before a "second call came in for shots being fired" at an apartment complex on Stone Oak Parkway, police said in a statement.
At least one of the calls came from a relative of the suspect, San Antonio Police Chief William P. McManus told reporters at the scene.
And as officers arrived, "a female exited the apartment stating that the suspect was shooting inside, and he was coming out," according to the police statement.
The suspect, identified as Brandon Scott Poulos, 46, "then exited the apartment and opened fire on the responding officers, striking one officer in the leg," police said.
He shot six more officers more while he was barricaded in the property, police said.
All seven officers' injuries were not life-threatening, and they will all make "a full recovery," police said. They have been on the job four to eight years, police said.
The suspect took cover back inside the apartment, which touched off "several hours of negotiating, and other means to get the suspect to surrender peacefully," police said.
Police evacuated residents from the apartment block who could be safely moved, NBC affiliate WOAI of San Antonio reported.
Officers eventually got to the suspect, who was dead; it wasn't immediately clear whether he had shot himself or was killed by police.
"SWAT arrived on the scene and the suspect barricaded himself inside the apartment for several hours," McManus, the police chief, said in a video on Facebook.
"At the end of the event the suspect was found to be deceased. We don't know if he was shot by a self-inflicted wound or whether or not he was shot by SWAT officers," McManus said.
Neighbor Joseph Loredo said he heard a loud pop as he was studying before he went to his balcony to see at least two helicopters and heard more shots.
"When I went outside, I saw one of the SAPD officers had been shot,” he told WOAI. “It looked like a leg wound, because they were putting a tourniquet on him, and then they dragged him away."
Sheriff's deputies and a SWAT unit eventually joined the first officers to arrive.
"PD was actually firing back," Loredo said. "The person who's shooting actually shot a few of the officers. So I witnessed this. I saw at least a few of them get shot."
The suspect had been arrested Saturday on two counts of assault and one count of driving while intoxicated, McManus said.
