A 70-year-old man called San Antonio police himself Saturday night to report that a 62-year-old woman was “bothering him” — then told officers who arrived at his South Side home that he had shot her inside the house. She was pronounced dead at the scene, and the man was detained as investigators worked to piece together what happened.
Officers Responded to the Suspect's Own Disturbance Call
According to KSAT, San Antonio police officers responded to the 8500 block of Presa Street just before 8 p.m. Saturday after the 70-year-old man himself called in a disturbance, claiming the woman was bothering him. As reported by KENS 5, the call came in at approximately 7:56 p.m., establishing that officers were responding to a report the suspect himself initiated before anyone discovered the victim inside.
Per the same account, when officers arrived they found the man standing outside the house, and he immediately told them he had shot the woman inside. Cedar News reports that the suspect surrendered without incident outside the home, meeting officers directly rather than being found inside with the victim. Once inside, officers saw that the 62-year-old woman had suffered a gunshot wound, KSAT's report notes, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigation Continues as Legal Questions Remain
The man was detained at the scene, according to police, and the investigation remains ongoing per the station's report. Key details remain unresolved, including the exact relationship between the man and the woman, whether the Bexar County District Attorney's Office has filed formal charges, and what specifically happened inside the house that led to the shooting.
Under Texas Penal Code § 19.02, murder is a first-degree felony punishable by 5 to 99 years or life in prison for intentionally or knowingly causing a person's death, according to the L&L Law Group. Texas self-defense law, however, sets a specific bar for justifying deadly force. Under Texas Penal Code §§ 9.31 and 9.32, a claim of self-defense requires a reasonable belief that deadly force was immediately necessary to protect against unlawful deadly force, and the Giffords Law Center notes that simple annoyance or non-threatening behavior does not meet that legal threshold — a distinction that stands in contrast to the suspect's own account that the woman was merely “bothering him.”
A South Side Corridor With a History of Violence
This is not the first fatal shooting along the Presa Street corridor. Hoodline previously reported on a man fatally shot at a motel in the 4500 block of South Presa Street in January, and in April 2024, a 27-year-old man was killed in a shooting near South Presa Street and Topeka Boulevard, a case that led to murder indictments against three men later that year.
The killing also lands amid a broader — if improving — homicide picture in San Antonio. The city recorded 105 homicides in 2025, marking its third consecutive annual decline from 127 in 2024, 165 in 2023, and a recent high of 231 in 2022, according to KSAT. San Antonio Police Department crime analysis released in 2025 found that most local homicides and violent altercations stem from personal disputes among acquaintances rather than random stranger violence, according to the City of San Antonio.
Regional data also points to a persistent pattern of fatal violence between people who know each other. The Collaborative Commission on Domestic Violence reported 32 domestic violence-related homicides in Bexar County in 2024, compared to 33 in 2023, with female victims continuing to represent the majority of fatalities, per the City of San Antonio. Separately, data from the Texas Council on Family Violence cited by KENS 5 found that Bexar County registered the highest per-capita domestic violence death rate among all Texas counties in 2024.
