2 killed in quadruple shooting on East Side identified

  

SAN ANTONIOUPDATE 11/30/24 at 10:30 a.m.: The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the two people killed on Thanksgiving morning at a home on the city’s East Side as 24-year-old La Vontay Drummer-Simms and 27-year-old Devin Lavalais.

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Two people are dead, and two others are injured after a shooting on the East Side, according to San Antonio police.

According to SAPD Chief William McManus, a group of people had been gathered at a house in the 600 block of Potomac Street since Wednesday.

At some point Thursday morning, a man who was leaving the house started shooting. McManus said police were unsure why the man began shooting.

The two deceased people and at least one of the injured victims are men in their 20s, McManus said.

The severity of the victim’s injuries is not known.

A man was initially detained a few blocks away near East Houston Street and North New Braunfels Avenue. That man has since been taken into custody, McManus said.