>> DAVID SEARS: JUST INTO OUR COME OUT. I AS THE BUS DRIVER HAS BEEN FIRED THIS COMING
AFTER PARENTS EXPRESSED
THEIR CONCERN THAT THE BUS
DRIVER WAS ALLEGEDLY ASSIGNING
SEATS TO STUDENTS BASED ON
THEIR RACE.
>> PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
SAY STUDENTS OF COLOR WERE
PLACED AT THE FRONT OF THE BUS.
WELL WHITE STUDENTS WERE PLACED
AT THE BACK. THE DISTRICT SAYS
THE DRIVER TOLD THEM.
STUDENTS WERE SEPARATED BECAUSE
OF BEHAVIORAL ISSUES THIS
HAPPENED BACK ON FEBRUARY 24TH.
>> IN A STATEMENT TO COME OUT
WHY IS THE
SPOKESMAN SAID THIS
INVESTIGATION THE THEY
INVESTIGATED THE ALLEGATIONS
AND THEN DECIDED TO FIRE THE
BUS DRIVER BECAUSE OF QUOTE.
DEMONSTRATED LACK OF DUE
DILIGENCE AND PROFESSIONAL
JUDGMENT WHEN
INSTITUTING DISCIPLINE. THE
DISTRICT SAYS THE BUS DRIVER
DID NOT DO HER DUE DILIGENCE IN
INVESTIGATING THE STUDENT’S
BEHAVIOR.
PEOPLE
BEHAVIOR. PEOPLE IN A SOUTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ARE
ALL DEALING WITH THE SAME
HEADACHES THESE DAYS IT WAS
BROUGHT ON BY A GROUP OF
CAR BURGLARS.
>> THEY GOT INTO ABOUT A DOZEN
CARS AND TRUCKS IN A
SUBDIVISION SUBDIVISION NEAR
SOUTHTON ROAD AND
INTERSTATE 37. OUR KATRINA
WEBBER TELLS US WHY POLICE SAY
THE VICTIMS MAY HAVE GIVEN THE
CROOKS AN OPEN INVITATION TO
STEAL.
>> THE TRAIL OF A GROUP OF OVERNIGHT THIEVES WAS MAPPED OUT THIS MORNING BUT PATROL
CARS IN THE SOUTH SIDE
NEIGHBORHOOD EVERYWHERE POLICE
STOPPED. CROOKS HAD BEEN
EARLIER THEY.
>> I LOOKED AROUND, I MEAN THEY
SHUFFLE EVERYTHING OUT AND THEY
LEFT I GUESS BECAUSE THERE’S
NOTHING IN HERE TO TAKE EVEN
THOUGH SHE FARED BETTER THAN
SOME OF HER NEIGHBORS ON
STETSON VIEW MARY STEIN KRUSE
SAYS SHE STILL FELT VIOLATED.
>> OTHERS LOST CLOSE AND
WALLETS STEREO EQUIPMENT AND
KEYS FROM THEIR CAUSE.
>> TO HIT THE WHOLE
NEIGHBORHOOD BASICALLY.
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>> ACCORDING TO POLICE THERE WERE 10 VICTIMS AND COUNTING ON
3 DIFFERENT STREETS. THIEVES GOT INTO ABOUT THE SAME NUMBER OF CARS HERE JUST
LAST WEEK, THIS TIME, HE’S HIT
THE NAIL IS THE MOST OF US
ESPECIALLY HARD $47,000.
THEY TOOK HIS
ENTIRE TRUCK.
>> MALALA WAS THERE TOO SO GOT
TO CALL MY
CREDIT SONS.
>> AND ON MONDAY. I REALIZE IS
ANYMORE. HE SAYS HE GOT HOME
AROUND 11 LAST NIGHT AND NEVER
HEARD A THING OR SAW ANY
BROKEN GLASS. ANOTHER NEIGHBOR
REPORTED SEEING A GROUP A
SUSPICIOUS MAN IN
THE CAR. OTHERS BELIEVE THEY
CAUGHT THEM IN ACTION ON
SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS POLICE SAY
IN JUST ABOUT EVERY ONE OF
THESE CASES, THE CAR OWNERS
LEFT THEIR DOORS UNLOCKED, THEY
SY THE EASIEST WAY TO KEEP OF
CRIMINALS IS TO LOCK THEM.
BUT
NOW ON DEFINITELY DOUBLE CHECK
AND TRIPLE CHECK MARY STEIN
KRUSE PLANS TO BE EXTRA CAREFUL
ABOUT THAT SHE ALSO HOPES ARE NEIGHBORS AS WELL AS POLICE WILL BE MORE WATCHFUL KATRINA
WEBBER KSAT
♪
12 NEWS.
>> DAVID SEARS: A MOTHER FACING
CHARGES AFTER HER SON WAS SEEN
RUNNING THROUGH THE STREETS
WEARING HANDCUFFS THE BEXAR
COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS A
MAN THAT
ROSEWALL VARA WAS CHARGED WITH
ASSAULT CAUSING BODILY INJURY
TO A FAMILY MEMBER.
AN ARREST AFFIDAVIT ACCUSES HER
OF MAKING HER SON PUT ON
HANDCUFFS THEN WE’LL BAR IS
ACUSED OF GRABBING AN
EXTENSION CORD AND WHIPPING HIM
WITH
MULTIPLE TIMES. THE BOY WAS
ABLE TO GRAB THAT CORE BUT THAN
WE LOVE OUR GRAB A 2ND QUARTER
CONTINUED
HITTING HIM EVENTUALLY HE WAS
ABLE TO RUN AWAY WITH OUR TOLD
DEPUTIES THAT SHE WANTED TO
DISCIPLINE HIM BECAUSE HE HAD
BEEN QUOTE GETTING INTO TROUBLE
AT SCHOOL.
THE JURY STILL HAS NOT BEEN
ABLE TO REACH A VERDICT IN THE
PUNISHMENT PHASE OF THE TRIAL
OF ROSA LINDA O
ALL DAY. SHE WAS CONVICTED OF
INTOXICATION MANSLAUGHTER AND
INTOXICATION ASSAULT CHARGES ON
WEDNESDAY. THE JURY RESUMED
DELIBERATIONS THIS MORNING
FALLING 4 HOURS OF
DELIBERATIONS YESTERDAY.
HER LAWYER HAS ASKED THE JURY
FOR PROBATION. PROSECUTORS ARE
ASKING THEM TO CONSIDER THE
HIGH INTO THE PUNISHMENT RANGE
THAT RANGES FROM 2 TO 20 YEARS
IN PRISON. THE SUMMER OF
2018 DRIVING DRUNK ALL THEY
CRASHED BROADSIDE INTO A CAR
KILLING THE DRIVER AND
CRITICALLY INJURING 4
PASSENGERS.
>> AND POLICE ARE STILL WORKING
TO SOLVE A MURDER CASE THAT
HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO AND
THEY’RE NAMING THEIR NUMBER
ONE SUSPECT. POLICE SAY
41 YEAR-OLD FROM SEE SPOT ON
CAIN IS NOW UNDER ARREST AND
CHARGED WITH THE MURDER THAT
HAPPENED BACK IN 1996.
RECORDS SHOW THAT ON KAYE IS
ACCUSED OF STABBING 18 YEAR-OLD
JOSEPH JOHNSON TO DEATH ON WEST
MISTLETOE AVENUE. POLICE SAY THEY RECENTLY TOOK A LOOK AT THE UNSOLVED CASE AND REALIZED
THEY HAD MISSED TALKING TO SOME
PEOPLE BACK THEN THEY HAD
TO TRAVEL TO FLORIDA TO TALK TO
ONE OF THE WITNESSES AND POLICE
SAY THAT
THAT MAN AND ONE OTHER NAME
BEEN CAME AS THE MURDER
SUSPECT.
AND PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS SIGNED AN BILLION MEASURE TO HELP TACKLE THE CORONAVIRUS
OUTBREAK. SO FAR 12 PEOPLE IN
THE US HAVE DIED AND MORE THAN
200 ARE INFECTED.
THE LEGISLATION THE PRESIDENT
SIGNED PROVIDES FEDERAL PUBLIC
HEALTH AGENCIES WITH MONEY FOR
VACCINES. TEST AND POTENTIAL
TREATMENTS AND IT HELPS STATE
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS PREPARE
TO RESPOND TO THE THREAT.
JUST YESTERDAY GOVERNOR GREG
ABBOTT SAID TEXAS NOW HAS THE
ABILITY TO TEST FOR THE
CORONAVIRUS ABBOTT SAID TESTS
CAN BE CONDUCTED AT 10 PUBLIC
HEALTH LABS THROUGHOUT
THE STATE THAT ARE PART OF THE
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL’S
LABORATORY RESPONSE NETWORK,
ONE OF THE LABS IS IN SAN
ANTONIO, BUT IT’S NOT IN
OPERATION JUST YET.
>> DAVID SEARS: THE SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK HAS LAUNCHED A MONTH-LONG CORONAVIRUS
PREPAREDNESS AND PREVENTION
CAMPAIGN. IT’S OUR LATEST KSAT
COMMUNITY EVENT THE FOOD BANK
WANTS TO PUT TOGETHER 300,000
CORONAVIRUS PREPAREDNESS KITS
THE KIDS WILL INCLUDE FOOD AND
SUPPLIES. IT GOT ALL THE WAYS
YOU CAN HELP ON KSAT DOT COM.
GET ALL THE INFORMATION IN OUR
KSAT COMMUNITY SECTION.
>> AND TODAY MARKS THE
ANNIVERSARY OF THE FINAL DAY OF
THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO IN 1836
TO HONOR THOSE THAT DIED IN
THE BATTLE. THE SAN ANTONIO
LIVING HISTORY ASSOCIATION PUTS
ON THE DAWN AT THE ALAMO
CEREMONY, OUR ERICA HERNANDEZ
TELLS US WHY SOME HISTORY BUT
THINKS I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT
TO REMEMBER THE ALAMO.
>> SHOTS FIRED IN HONOR OF THE ESTIMATED A 189 MEN.
>> DIED IN THE BATTLE OF THE
ALAMO ENDED MARCH
6 1836.
>> THE SAN ANTONIO LIVING
HISTORY ASSOCIATION CONTINUES
TO REMEMBER THOSE FALL IN MEN
WITH ITS DONE AT THE ALAMO OF
IT WITH THE CEREMONY WELL.
>> HISTORY IS HISTORY. YOU CAN
CHANGE IT, GOOD AND THE BAD
OF IT. SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TAKE
AWAY THE BAD OF IT JUST LEAVE
THE GOOD, BUT IT’S ALL HISTORY.
IT ALL.
IT ALL. >> YOU KNOW IT’S ALL PART OF OUR HERITAGE THE CEREMONY
INCLUDED SONGS BY A LOCAL HIGH
SCHOOL CHOIR. >> REENACTMENTS AND MOMENTS OF SILENCE TEXAS HISTORY BUFF
JASON LIPPERT JOE FROM FORT
WORTH FOR THE CEREMONY CALLING
IT A ONE OF A KIND EXPERIENCE.
>> SHE WAS ON THE BACK OF THAT
IT’S JUST IT’S AWESOME CAN WE
BE.
>> LIVING HISTORY INTERPRETER. ONE WOMAN SAYS YOU CAN’T FORGET THOSE WHO DIED BUT IN THE ALAMO
PLEASE GIVE US SO MUCH.
>> THOSE MEN, YOU KNOW.
SO WE
COULD BE STANDING HERE TALKING
TO EACH OTHER TODAY.
>> ERIC THAT’S NONE THIS KSAT
12 NEWS.
>> DAVID SEARS: MEXICAN
SCULPTOR SEBASTIAN WILL BE THE
GRAND MARSHAL FOR THE FIESTA
FLAMBEAU PARADE THIS YEAR SO
THE AFTERNOONS THESE COLDER
BEHIND THE TORCH
OF FRIENDSHIP THAT’S DOWNTOWN.
WE SAYS HE’S HONORED TO BE PART
OF THE
FIESTA FLAMBEAU THE ASSOCIATION
MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT AT A
PRESS CONFERENCE THIS MORNING
AT THE ONE OF HIS TO THEATER ON
UTSA
DOWNTOWN CAMPUS.
>> THIS MAN IS AN
INCREDIBLE ARTIST.
>> HE’S INTERNATIONALLY
RENOWNED AND HE’S HAD.
>> EXHIBITS ALL OVER THE WORLD,
>> OVER AND HE
IS OUR FRIEND HERE IN SAN
ANTONIO IS A MATTER OF FACT WE
HAVE MORE THAN ONE
HUNDREDS WORKS BY THIS
GENTLEMAN.
>> DAVID SEARS: SINGER ALLEY BROOKS IS THE HONORARY GRAND MARSHAL FOR THE 20 20 PARADE,
THE PARADE IS HAILED AS THE
LARGEST ILLUMINATED NIGHT
PARADE IN THE NATION AND IS
VIEWED
BY APPROXIMATELY 700,000 PEOPLE
ON THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN SAN
ANTONIO, AND ANOTHER 1.5
MILLION ON TELEVISION.
SHOOTING FOR SPORT AND A
GOOD CAUSE TEAMS OF SHOOTERS
ARE GATHERED AT THE NATIONAL
SHOOTING COMPLEX ON THE FAR
WEST SIDE FOR THE TEXAS DPS
FOUNDATION 3RD ANNUAL CHARITY
CLAY SHOOT.
>> OUR ADAM CASKEY A GARRETT
BRNGER ARE OUT TAKING
PART 2. GARRETT ORGANIZERS ARE
SAYING THIS IS THEIR BIGGEST
EVENT EVER.
>> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY RIGHT NOW WE’VE HEARD THAT THERE ARE 138 SHOOTERS ADAM AND I WILL BE
THE ONE 39 1 ONE 40 OF THEM ARE
ON THIS COURSE,
THE TEAMS ARE MADE UP FROM THE
CORPORATE SPONSORS, EVERYBODY’S
GATHERED AROUND RIGHT NOW WE’RE
GETTING READY TO KICK THIS OFF.
NOW THIS IS THE 3RD ANNUAL
CHARITY CLAY SUIT FOR THE
DPS FOUNDATION THAT’S SIMILAR
TO THE 100 CLUB THAT THE POLICE
HAVE THEY SUPPORT DPS TROOPERS
AND OTHER EMPLOYEES WITH
SCHOLARSHIPS FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE IN EMERGENCIES AND
HELPING THE FAMILIES OF FALLEN
TROOPERS, THE FOUNDATION SAYS
IT’S ABOUT PROTECTING THE
PEOPLE WHO PROTECT TEXANS.
>> IT COULDN’T
BE HAPPIER.
>> OUT HERE TODAY, YOU KNOW THE
ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE PS
THE COMMISSION AS WELL AS THE
ADMINISTRATIVE
FOLKS THAT MAKES DPS SUCH A
WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION THAT IS
ONE OF VERY FEW LAW ENFORCEMENT
ORGANIZATIONS THAT
REALLY. I THINK HAS ENHANCED
THEIR CULTURE OVER TIME.
>> NOW THE FOUNDATION SAYS THAT MANY TROOPERS DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW THAT THEY EXIST THEY DON’T
KNOW THAT THE BENEFITS ARE
AVAILABLE TO THEM FOR NO COST
SO ANOTHER THING THAT THE
CEMENT IS ABOUT IS
RAISING AWARENESS. THEY’RE
GOING TO CATCH UP WITH OUT OF
AN EYE A LITTLE LATER ON AS WE
START THE COURSE WERE ISSUED
100 OUT OF A 100 TODAY
THAT’S RIGHT.
>> SEE HOW THAT NATIONAL
SHOOTING COMPLEX, I’M GARRETT
BRNGER.
>> AIRFARE.
>> KSAT FOR HIS CAUSE CORROSION