Police in San Antonio, Texas, are searching for a shooter who left three people hospitalized after opening fire outside a nightclub on the city’s gay strip.
The shooting occurred after midnight on Monday morning, outside Pegasus nightclub. San Antonio Express-Newsreports that a fight broke out around 12:20 a.m., which prompted two suspects to get into a car and open fire on a crowd at a taco stand as they drove away.
Two men and a woman, all in their 20s, were hospitalized, and police say none of their injuries are life-threatening.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus described the shooter as a man in his 40s, who was likely an “angry patron who probably had too much to drink and was kicked out of the club.”
McManus said that police don’t believe the shooting was a hate crime, and didn’t know whether the suspect had any prior relationship with the victims.
Mike Rodriguez, manager of Pegasus, told News 4 that the initial fight broke out after a dispute over food.
“A nicely dressed gentleman was ordering food,” he said. “The guy behind him I guess got irritated that he couldn’t make up his mind, called him a name. They started to push and shove each other. Our security broke it up, kept one inside, and took the other one outside, just to separate them. The one inside kept on yelling through the fence names at the other one and he got upset, and at that point, he walked off.”
Rodriguez added: “Then a couple minutes later he came back here to the stop sign and he had a gun and he shot three times in the air. They called me to the front and I came to the front and I told all the customers, everybody, to get inside, and started pushing people inside.”
Rodriguez said they managed to clear everyone out of Pegasus’ outside area, but he thinks the man “got in his car, drove around the block behind us and came down this road and open-fired at the gate.”
According to Rodriguez, none of the victims hit by the gunfire were involved in the initial argument.
Rodriguez told KSAT 12 that he intends to “beef up security. More than likely get an armed guard presence here, be more vigilant.”
Police are canvassing the area for witnesses and security camera footage to find anything related to the men, or the red Nissan sedan they fled the scene in.
Elon Musk, the CEO of spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX, announced that he plans to relocate both companies from California to Texas in response to recent pro-transgender legislation.
The law that prompted Musk's tantrum, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) on July 15, and scheduled to take effect in January, prevents school officials and teachers from "outing" students who identify as transgender or nonbinary to their parents.
"This is the final straw," Musk wrote on X, which he also owns. "Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas."
George Bereska, Jr., was arrested on August 7 and charged with first-degree murder with a firearm for shooting his husband, 66-year-old Benjamin Renwick, in their Florida home on August 6.
The shooting happened around 9:41 p.m., when the Boynton Beach Police Department says it received a call from a number -- later identified as Renwick's -- and heard "moaning and the sound of a single gunshot, followed by silence," according to an arrest report obtained by West Palm Beach NBC affiliate WPTV.
Two minutes later, police received a call from Bereska, saying he and his husband had gotten into a "very bad argument." He told the police dispatcher that he shot his husband in the chest. The dispatcher directed him to render first aid, to which Bereska responded, "He's dead."
A transgender woman was gunned down in a horrifying murder in Baltimore, Maryland, earlier this month.
On Sunday, August 4, at 10 a.m., Baltimore police responded to a call of an unresponsive female in a rear alley near the intersections of North Monroe and West Lanvale Streets in West Baltimore.
Upon arrival, police discovered that the woman was dead from a gunshot wound. The victim was later identified as Tai'Vion Lathan, 24, also known as "Tai."
Lathan's family learned of the news after her mother went to Lathan's home looking for her daughter, who had missed their daily phone call. The family soon heard that a woman's body had been found near the home.
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