A 35-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the upper body during a pre-dawn altercation on San Antonio's North Side, according to the San Antonio Police Department. Officers responded to the 2500 block of Jackson Keller Road around 4 a.m. Wednesday, where they found the victim suffering from stab wounds before he was taken to a hospital for further treatment.
SAPD's preliminary report identifies a 47-year-old man as the person who stabbed the other man several times in his upper body, as reported by KSAT. Police say both men involved in the altercation were experiencing homelessness. Officers have not released the victim's specific condition, and the station reports that SAPD had no further information readily available as of Wednesday morning.
The stabbing happened near Vance Jackson Road, in a stretch of the North Side that falls under SAPD's Patrol North Division and the North SAFFE community policing unit, according to the City of San Antonio. SAFFE officers typically work with residents and property managers in the area to address recurring neighborhood crime concerns. SAPD's investigation into Wednesday's stabbing remains ongoing.
A Block With a Violent Past
Wednesday's attack is not the first violent incident to hit the 2500 block of Jackson Keller Road. In 2016, 31-year-old Maria Rodriguez was fatally stabbed inside an apartment on the block, a case that remained unsolved and under active Crime Stoppers investigation with a $5,000 reward offer, according to KSAT. Two years later, in December 2018, police investigated a double stabbing on the same block after a verbal altercation escalated into an alley fight, leaving one victim with life-threatening injuries, per Crime Stoppers of San Antonio.
Wednesday's stabbing also echoes a pattern Hoodline has covered before. In March, San Antonio police deployed K-9 units and a helicopter on the city's Northwest Side after a late-night stabbing of an unhoused woman sparked a manhunt following an argument over lingering on private property.
Legal Stakes for an Aggravated Assault Charge
Under Texas Penal Code Section 22.02, an assault involving a knife or one that causes serious bodily injury is classified as aggravated assault, a second-degree felony. A conviction carries a sentence of 2 to 20 years in state prison and fines up to $10,000, according to FindLaw. Texas law elevates a simple assault to that felony level whenever a deadly weapon is exhibited or used during an offense.
Crime Trends and a Growing Unhoused Population
The stabbing arrives even as San Antonio's overall violent crime numbers have been trending downward. Citywide violent street crime — murder, robbery, aggravated assault, and deadly conduct — dropped 21.1% in 2025 compared with 2024 under SAPD's Violent Crime Reduction Plan, developed in partnership with UTSA, according to the San Antonio Report. Hot-spot policing interventions tied to that plan reportedly achieved up to a 63% reduction in targeted violent crime on specific blocks across the city in 2025.
Overall crime in San Antonio has fallen 13% from its 2023 peak through 2025, with rates of murder, robbery, and aggravated assault showing sustained drops, per an analysis by the San Antonio Express-News of police department records. Citywide crime rates fell from 10,342 incidents per 100,000 residents in 2023 to 8,986 in 2025, that analysis found.
Even as violent crime has eased citywide, San Antonio's unhoused population has climbed to a decade high. The January 2025 Point-in-Time Count conducted by Close to Home recorded 3,372 people experiencing homelessness across San Antonio and Bexar County, up from 3,155 the year before. Emergency shelter bed capacity, meanwhile, fell nearly 10% between 2022 and 2025, dropping from 2,315 beds to 2,085 beds even as requests for housing assistance rose more than 4%, according to Close to Home's annual report.
The San Antonio City Council set aside more than $40 million for homelessness services in its Fiscal Year 2025 budget, funding street outreach, emergency shelters, rapid rehousing, and encampment cleanups, according to KENS 5. City initiatives tied to that budget aimed to move at least 500 unsheltered individuals into temporary or permanent shelter over the year. SAPD has not said whether outreach resources played any role in Wednesday's incident, and its investigation into the Jackson Keller Road stabbing continues.
