SAN ANTONIO – A 28-year-old woman was fatally shot while sitting outside at a patio bar downtown overnight, according to San Antonio police.
Officers were called just after midnight to Smoke Skybar in the 500 block of East Crockett Street, not far from East Houston Street and Interstate 37, after receiving word of a person wounded.
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According to police, officers arrived to find a woman with an apparent gunshot wound to her back. The woman was taken by ambulance to an area hospital, where she later died.
Police said the victim had been sitting outside a bar on the patio when she was struck by the bullet. The name of the victim has not yet been released.
A preliminary police report states the woman was seated on the upper level with her back to the highway when a gunshot was heard from the vicinity of Interstate 37, which then hit the victim.
At this time, police do not know who the shooter was or why they shot the victim.
The San Antonio Police Department, the San Antonio Fire Department and EMS all responded to the call.
The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, police said.