SAN ANTONIO – A 27-year-old North Side man is accused of killing his grandmother inside her Shavano Park home on Wednesday, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, which arrested the grandson later that evening.
The woman, which Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said he believes is in her 70s or 80s, called BCSO to request help for her 27-year-old grandson who was experiencing a mental health episode.
The sheriff’s office has not yet identified the man or his grandmother.
The grandmother made the call just before 5 p.m. She was in contact with a deputy, Salazar said, but she never responded by the time deputies arrived at her home on Long Bow Road, roughly 30 minutes later.
Salazar said no one answered the deputies’ first knock at the door, but the grandson eventually opened the door with blood immediately visible.
“(The deputy) could see the victim lying on the floor,” Salazar said, “covered in blood inside the residence.”
The woman was pronounced dead on the scene, Salazar said, with heavy amounts of trauma to her neck and face.
The grandson was placed under arrest, and Shavano Park police responded shortly after, Salazar said. A “pointy, edged weapon” and a “heavy blunt object” were recovered by deputies.
Salazar expects the grandson to face a murder charge, and said this would not be his first time behind bars.
“The city police here know him; they’ve dealt with him many times,” Salazar said. “He’s got a long criminal history, and a long mental health history as well.”
The grandson had multiple reports of violence against the Shavano Park Police Department, according to Salazar, “but fortunately nothing to this extent.”
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