SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — Two San Antonio police officers were shot and seriously wounded Wednesday night as they tried to stop a man from burning a home during a domestic dispute, authorities said.
The officers were shot at around 7:30 p.m. while answering a disturbance call on the city's northeast side and were in surgery late Wednesday night, police said.
The woman and children weren't hurt, but after the officers arrived, the man went upstairs and shot both officers with a long gun through a window, McManus said.
Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesMore officers arrived and got their wounded colleagues to safety.
“The officers are very, very lucky that they weren’t killed.”One officer has seven years with the department and the other has two years, the chief said.
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