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stepped out of his vehicle and shot the officer twice, once in the head. The shooter then drove off.<\/p>\nA San Antonio police officer was shot and killed while writing a traffic ticket, a shooting that officials indicated appeared to be a targeted attack.<\/p>\n
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told the press that while the officer was writing a ticket, someone pulled up behind the squad car, stepped out of his vehicle and shot the officer twice, once in the head. The shooter then drove off.<\/p>\n
“It’s always difficult, especially in this this day and age, where police are being targeted across the country,” McManus said.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, like Dallas, like Baton Rouge, it’s happened here,” he added, referring to cities where police officers were killed in targeted attacks.<\/p>\n
“Attacks against law enforcement officers will not be tolerated in Texas and must be met with swift justice,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement, referring to his desire to sign the Police Protection act, a law that would make targeted attacks on police officers a hate crime.<\/p>\n
McManus identified the officer who was killed as Det. Benjamin Marconi, 50, a 20-year veteran.<\/p>\n
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He said Sunday night that the suspect had not been caught, and investigators had not identified a motive, but it did not appear there was any relationship between the shooter and the person who had been pulled over.<\/p>\n
Police scanner recordings offer a frightening account of what took place, and indicate that the attack took place in the vicinity of police headquarters.<\/p>\n
“I’ve got an officer down in front of headquarters,” the voice on the recording said. “Black male in a black Nissan. I need EMS right now in front of headquarters.”<\/p>\n
San Antonio Police issued a photo on social media of the black Nissan fleeing the scene after the shooting.<\/p>\n
“This is the vehicle seen fleeing headquarters after the shooting. The suspect is described as a black male wearing a hoodie, baggy pants, and beard. Approximately 5’7. Please call Crime<\/a>Stoppers at 224-STOP with any info,” the post said.<\/p>\n “We consider this suspect to be extremely dangerous and a clear threat to law enforcement officers and the public,” McManus said.<\/p>\n The shooting comes in what has been a year of heightened tensions surrounding police.<\/p>\n Following the widely covered police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in St. Paul, Minnesota, a gunman killed five police officers in Dallas who were protecting a protest rally.<\/p>\n Also in July, a man wearing a ski mask and armed with two rifles and a pistol killed three officers near a gas station and convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Urbandale, Iowa resident Scott Michael Greene allegedly shot and killed two police officers in an ambush-style attack.
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