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Details of deadly confrontation between man and VIA police released FacebookTwitterEmail San Antonio police investigate the scene where VIA Metropolitan Transit police shot and killed a man accused of waving a handgun on a bus April 20, 2021.Jacob Beltran /Staff The moments leading up to the death of a man accused of waving a handgun on a VIA Metropolitan Transit bus were revealed in a report to the Texas Attorney General’s Office. On April 20, a passenger called police to report that a man w...

San Antonio records four fatal shootings involving police in a weeks span FacebookTwitterEmail Police personnel investigate a scene after a shootout on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. San Antonio police shot and killed a man accused of gunning down another man in a shed on the South Side, police say.Kin Man Hui /Staff photographer Over the last week, San Antonio law enforcement agencies have been involved in four separate fatal shootings, two of them occurring on the same day. In at least three cases,...