It's Wednesday, January 25th.
I'm Barry Davis with your KENS 5 News now.
A San Antonio police officer shot and
killed a man at a Westside motel.
Chief William McManus says officers were
patrolling the area near Marbach and
4:10 around 11:00 last night when they
pulled into the Motel 6 parking lot,
they noticed a guy with what
appeared to be drugs in his hand.
The chief said the officers
tried to handcuff the man,
but he pushed back,
pulled the gun from his waistband.
And fired at least two shots.
One of the officers shot back,
hitting the man in the torso.
He died at the scene.
Chief McManus says the officer who
shot him will be on administrative leave,
standard operating procedure
during the investigation.
We have new insight from body
camera footage of another incident
where officers shot a man at a
different motel on the West side.
According to police,
someone at the luxury inn dialed 911
January 4th complaining about a person
waving a gun in the motel parking lot.
Officers say this wasn't the
first time someone called
about Jose Arrugas that night.
Witnesses told police Arrugas went to a
second floor room after he flashed his
weapon and body camera footage edited by.
Say PD,
it shows the moments just
before two officers opened fire.
Police Department.
2523 drop the gun.
That camera footage does confirm what
Chief McManus told us that night.
Police later discovered the weapon
Arrugas had was only a BB gun.
Still, he's facing charges of making
terroristic threats against the two officers,
which are felonies.
The District Attorney now
reviewing the entire case,
including SAP's response.
The officers are on administrative duty.
District officials say a Bernie Champion
high school teacher admitted sharing
inappropriate messages with students
and inappropriate relationship with a
student was reported to the district
and when the teacher was confronted,
she admitted she spoke inappropriately
to students through text messaging
and social media.
Bernie police say they looked into
reports of that improper relationship
but at this time the investigation
does not show any crime has been
committed that teacher has resigned.
Eight months after the shooting
at Rob Elementary,
State Senator Roland Gutierrez has
introduced a series of bills and
resolutions he believes lawmakers
from both parties can support.
Those new bills proposed the creation of a
school shooting victims compensation fund.
A separate bill would end qualified immunity,
preventing law enforcement
officers from being sued.
The lawmakers still cannot discuss
legislation for the next 4545 days
under state law, but Gutierrez.
As these families and others will
sit down with legislators to get
new laws passed this session.
A tornado in the Houston area
brought down utility poles,
power lines, destroyed some homes.
This is all just east of Houston.
This is video of a church in Deer Park.
The clergy shared pictures of the damage
to the building and the property.
The National Weather Service had issued
a tornado emergency for that area,
warning that a large,
extremely dangerous and potentially
deadly tornado was on the ground.
Also in Deer Park,
video shows buildings with the
windows blown out debris.
You see, scattered everywhere.
Thankfully,
so far there are no confirmed deaths.
The tech port Center and arena
has a new name this morning.
It will now be called the
Boeing Center at Tech Port.
Governor Abbott was in San Antonio
Tuesday for the announcement.
The aerospace company will also
soon begin construction on a new
adventures in aerospace exhibit.
The governor and others were given
a demonstration of this flight
simulators that would be available
to kids and trending online.
A lot of buzz about a new place
in Cibolo to get your groceries
the first HEB in the city.
Just opened its doors on FM
1103 about 45 minutes ago.
The store will have the same departments
you can find at other locations.
Plus it'll have its very own brand shop
with HEB themed merchandise like T-shirts,
baby clothes and other items.
That is your KENS 5 News now.
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I'm Barry Davis. We'll see you tomorrow.