‘Keep the kids safe’: Violence near San Antonio kindergarten leads to lockdown

SAN ANTONIO. San Antonio police said violence broke out outside a kindergarten on Thursday afternoon. Police said the woman was walking around with a gun and fired it.

The staff member said this forced the center, which was packed with children, to close.

The chaos took place in the west side public housing complex located on Colima and South San Jacinto streets. It’s not far from the same area where KENS 5 reported last month that an 18-year-old woman was killed and a 13-year-old girl wounded in a shootout.

The recent violence has made people in the neighborhood want peace.

An eyewitness to Thursday’s violence did not want to be named but spoke to KENS 5 hours after it happened. At first she said that the man and the woman were arguing.

“I witnessed a gentleman dragging a lady,” she said. “She lay on her back with her legs up, trying to get out of his grip.”

The woman said she called 911 and the couple continued to fight. She said that a neighbor then intervened in an attempt to calm the situation, and then things took an even more violent turn.

“The woman returns to the street and this time she is holding something in her hand,” said an eyewitness.

According to an eyewitness, the woman began to brandish a gun and argued with a neighbor who was trying to resolve the conflict.

“Then she shoots,” she said. “Toward the neighbor. She points towards a neighbor. Something similar to the intention to shoot the neighbor.”

Prior to this shot, a staff member had sealed off the center and alerted other nearby schools.

“My first instinct is we have to be safe and we have to keep the kids safe,” she said. “We don’t know if it will escalate. We don’t know if she was going to shoot her neighbor. The bullets don’t care where they land.”

The western side woman just wants the violence to stop.

“It’s getting hard,” she said. “But we must fight for our home, as always.”

At the scene, police told KENS 5 that they had delayed the fight. Police said the woman who fired the shot could be charged with making a terrorist threat. Police said the man had a warrant for harassment charges and went to jail.

Nobody was hurt or hurt.