A man is dead and an 18-year-old is recovering from a gunshot wound to the ankle after three men jumped out of a black SUV and opened fire on an apartment unit at Woodhill Apartments early Tuesday morning. San Antonio police say the shooting happened around 12:10 a.m. in the 4000 block of Woodstone Drive, where investigators later recovered casings from both a handgun and a rifle outside the complex.
According to KSAT, police say the black SUV pulled into the Woodhill Apartments parking lot before three men got out and shot at one of the units, striking three men in the process. One victim, believed to be between 18 and 25 years old, was shot in the upper body and taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The suspects fled the scene in the SUV, according to officers, and San Antonio police have not released the identity of the man who died.
The second victim, an 18-year-old man, was shot in the ankle and is expected to recover, per the same account. SAPD has an ongoing investigation into the shooting, and no arrests have been announced.
A Complex With A Troubled History
Woodhill Apartments is a 516-unit affordable housing property at 4909 Woodstone Drive serving families earning up to 80% of the area median income, developed and rehabilitated in partnership with Opportunity Home San Antonio, according to City of San Antonio records, with major construction completed in March 2026. The complex has also been the site of repeated violence over the past decade. In November 2023, the property saw two separate violent incidents within weeks — an apparent murder-suicide on Nov. 3 that left a man and woman dead inside a unit, and a Nov. 23 shooting outside the complex that hospitalized a 22-year-old man with a torso wound, as reported by KENS 5.
Further back, 22-year-old Davonnce Gant was shot and killed outside the complex in August 2019, a case that led to the arrest of a 19-year-old suspect two months later in St. Louis, according to MySA. And in May 2016, 23-year-old Daniel Bocanegra was fatally shot outside Woodhill Apartments in an early-morning attack that initially produced no witnesses or arrests, per KSAT's earlier reporting on that case.
What Charges Could Follow
If identified and arrested, suspects in a shooting fired from a vehicle toward an occupied building could face aggravated assault under Texas Penal Code § 22.02, which becomes a first-degree felony punishable by 5 to 99 years or life in prison when serious bodily injury or death results, according to legal guidance published by Houston Domestic Violence Defense. Separately, Texas Penal Code § 22.05 makes it a third-degree felony, carrying 2 to 10 years in prison, to discharge a firearm at or in the direction of a habitation or building regardless of whether the shooter knew it was occupied.
Part Of A Wider Northwest Side Pattern
The shooting adds to a string of 2026 apartment complex shootings Hoodline has tracked across San Antonio's Northwest Side, including gunfire at Saddle Ridge in February, a fatal shooting at La Risa Apartments in May, and a pool-area shooting at Altitude Apartments in July. Those incidents have repeatedly turned multi-family parking lots and common areas into scenes of violence despite broader efforts to curb gun crime citywide.
That broader effort appears to be working overall. San Antonio Police Department data cited by KSAT showed violent crime fell 9% and homicides dropped nearly 17% in 2025, declining from 119 to 99 through November, continuing a multi-year decline from record highs in 2022. The San Antonio Report found homicides fell another 8% in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year, citing Council on Criminal Justice analysis that places the city's homicide rate 12% below pre-pandemic levels.
UT San Antonio criminologists evaluating the city's Violent Crime Reduction Plan found that targeted hotspot policing and place-based strategies contributed to a 21.1% drop in violent street crime and a 32% drop in deadly conduct across San Antonio in 2025, according to UT San Antonio. Even so, the recurring violence at Woodhill Apartments underscores how citywide gains have not fully reached every property, and SAPD's investigation into Tuesday's shooting remains open.
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