By Eva Ruth Moravec
Although detectives are still questioning witnesses and the man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend at a West Side auto repair shop on Monday, no criminal charges have been filed yet, and the slaying may be a case of self-defense, police officials said.
A San Antonio Police Department incident report states that the woman, 43, had been upset since Saturday, when she allegedly learned that her boyfriend, in his 50s, was fixing his ex-girlfriend's van. The woman, whose name has not yet been released, allegedly kicked in the door of a mobile home where the couple lived and ransacked the home on Saturday before shooting out a tire of her boyfriend's truck, which was parked at his mother's house.
Police said the woman, described as being jealous, then went to the auto repair shop in the 5400 block of Old Highway 90 where her boyfriend worked and shot out the van's windows. The man hadn't seen his girlfriend since that day when she returned to Precision Auto “furious” on Monday, police said, and started to argue with him. According to the report, she had also sent him several text messages threatening to shoot and kill him.
The couple argued loudly in the parking lot, and the woman reportedly told him she was going to the truck to retrieve her gun and kill him, police said. She dug around in the truck, police said, and as she returned, the man, who was “in fear of his life and truly believed she was going to kill him,” pulled out a firearm and shot her in the chest before calling 9-1-1, the report states
The woman died in an ambulance at the scene, officials said.
Police recovered the gun used in the killing but could find no firearm on the woman or in her truck.
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