A 47-year-old man is recovering from stab wounds to his torso after telling San Antonio police he was attacked with a sharp instrument near Cuellar Park on the city's West Side, roughly an hour before he sought help. Officers were dispatched around 7:32 a.m. Saturday to the 600 block of Historic Old Highway 90, where they found the man suffering from non-life-threatening injuries. He was taken to a local hospital, and as of publication, no arrests had been made.
According to WOAI, the man said an unknown suspect stabbed him at a nearby park about an hour before officers were called to the scene, and that the attacker fled before police arrived. The station's report, written by Natali Castillo, does not identify a motive or describe the suspect, leaving investigators with an open case along a stretch of road that has seen its share of violence in recent months.
A Corridor With A History Of Unsolved Violence
Cuellar Park itself is a well-used West Side recreational hub, with sports fields, a community pool, a skate park, and a 0.6-mile walking trail located at SW 36th Street and San Fernando Street, according to City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation records. It sits along Historic Old Highway 90, a four-mile West Side thoroughfare that regained its historic name from Enrique M. Barrera Parkway after a unanimous San Antonio City Council vote in February 2022, capping a six-year campaign by local residents and business owners, per Texas Public Radio.
That same corridor has drawn police attention before. In June, a 31-year-old man was shot multiple times and critically injured in the 400 block of Historic Old Highway 90 near a food truck and nightclub crowd, with the shooter fleeing before officers arrived, as reported by KENS 5. And in October 2025, police searched for two suspects after a man sitting inside an SUV near the intersection of Historic Old Highway 90 and Cesar Chavez Boulevard was shot in the head. Neither of those cases has been publicly resolved.
Part Of A Broader Pattern Of West Side Stabbings
Saturday's attack also fits a pattern of knife violence reported across San Antonio's West Side this year. Hoodline previously covered a case in which a woman was hospitalized in critical condition after being stabbed multiple times inside an apartment, with the suspect fleeing on a bicycle. Earlier in the year, a man was stabbed and wandered the streets near a Rosillo H-E-B before getting help, and in March, a 58-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries in another West Side stabbing where the suspect was never immediately caught. A December 2025 case, in which a dispute over hair clippers turned into a fatal West Side street stabbing, ultimately led to felony charges.
The nearby Enrique M. Barrera Community Fitness Center, a 22,000-square-foot facility at 5800 Historic Old Highway 90 that opened in 2008 inside a converted sewing plant, houses both public fitness space and the administrative offices for the San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department along with the Park Police Academy, according to city records. Its presence underscores how much municipal infrastructure sits along a corridor that keeps generating violent-crime calls.
Citywide Homicides Down, But Local Incidents Persist
The stabbing comes even as San Antonio's overall violent crime numbers have been trending downward. Police department records analyzed by KSAT show citywide homicides fell for three consecutive years through 2025, dropping to 105 last year from 127 in 2024 and 165 in 2023. City officials have credited a place-based Violent Crime Reduction Plan, developed with University of Texas at San Antonio criminologists, with achieving a 41.5% drop in violent crime within targeted hot-spot areas, per the San Antonio Report.
Even so, recurring incidents along Historic Old Highway 90 suggest the corridor remains a persistent trouble spot despite those citywide gains. Under Texas Penal Code Section 22.02, stabbing someone with a sharp instrument is classified as aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in state prison and a fine of up to $10,000, should a suspect eventually be identified and charged.
Anyone with information about Saturday's attack is asked to contact Crime Stoppers of San Antonio at 210-224-STOP (7867) or submit a tip through the P3 Tips app. Tipsters can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to a felony arrest. Investigators have not said whether surveillance footage from the park or nearby businesses captured the suspect, and the exact motive behind the attack remains unknown.
