San Antonio, Texas: Security Guard Fatally Shoots Armed Man Inside East Side Game Room

A security guard fatally shot an armed man inside a slot machine business on the East Side of San Antonio, Texas, early Wednesday, and police say the guard was not hurt in the struggle that led to the shooting.

The shooting happened around 12:40 a.m. on Wednesday, November 11, at KJ's Playroom in the 4400 block of Hunnicut Road, near South WW White Road and Interstate 10, San Antonio police said. A man in his 30s entered the business carrying a gun, according to a sergeant with the San Antonio Police Department who spoke at the scene, KTSA reported.

A brief struggle over the gun

The man and the security guard briefly struggled over the weapon before the guard backed away and shot him, KTSA reported, in the police account given at the scene. KSAT reported that the armed man fired at the guard during the struggle inside the game room. KABB reported that the man entered the business on South WW White Road displaying a gun, that shots were exchanged during a physical struggle, and that the security guard was not injured.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not released his name, and they gave no age for him beyond the estimate that he was in his 30s. The guard's name has not been released either.

What police have not said

Police have not said why the man entered the business with a gun, whether he demanded money, or how many customers or workers were inside the game room at the time. They have not announced whether the guard faces any charge, and they describe the investigation as ongoing.

KJ's Playroom is a game room in a commercial strip on Hunnicut Road, a short distance from the interchange of South WW White Road and Interstate 10 on the city's East Side. The business was open and the guard was on duty when the man walked in shortly before 1 a.m. For the East Side, the case now sits on the questions police left open at the scene: who the man was, what he wanted inside the game room, and what the cameras and the workers who were there can tell investigators.

As of Wednesday, police had released no further details beyond the account given at the scene.