SAN ANTONIO, Texas — San Antonio police are deciding whether to press charges against a man accused of shooting another man in the parking lot of a Walmart store on Monday.
Police arrested the 70-year-old suspected shooter around 7 a.m., moments after the fatal shooting.
According to officers on the scene, the man with the gun was either sleeping or in his truck in the parking lot on Southeast Military Drive near Roosevelt Avenue.
Officers said at some point he got into an argument with another man who appeared to be in his 30s and possibly homeless.
According to police, the older man fired at least two shots, hitting the other man in the arm and back. He died at the scene.
Officers detained the suspected shooter and a woman who was in the truck with him for questioning.
As of Monday afternoon, investigators were not sure whether charges would be brought against the man.
This is the fourth fatal shooting outside a local Walmart store in the last 18 months.
In April, police arrested a 13-year-old boy who reportedly confessed to shooting and killing a man during an attempted car theft.
The shooting occurred shortly after the victim walked away from his wife and daughter in the parking lot of the store on Blanco Road near Wurzbach Parkway.
In February 2023, an 18-year-old man was accused of killing another man outside another Walmart in SE Military, closer to Goliad Road.
Then last September, a man died in a shootout with police outside a Walmart store on Bandera Road near Guilbeau.
At the time, police said the man was a murder suspect and had led officers on a chase that ended in the parking lot.
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