Drivers are asked to find an alternative route.
Update: 11:14 a.m. Tuesday, August 20: According to a release by the San Antonio Police Department, officers were dispatched to the area for a shooting around 8 a.m. SAPD spokesperson Ricardo Guzman said that a driver was reportedly found inside his vehicle with a gunshot wound “to his lower extremities.”
The man told police that he was driving southbound on Highway 281 before a random vehicle pulled up next to him and the driver started firing a gun at him.
According to additional preliminary information, the suspect then fled in an unknown direction. The shooting victim immediately pulled off at the Josephine Street exit before calling the police. The man has since been transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition.
Guzman said the investigation remains ongoing, but clarified police do not believe it was a road rage shooting. The roadway has reopened, according to TxDOT cameras.
The original story:
San Antonio drivers near downtown will need to find an alternate route on Tuesday, August 20. A police incident forced the closure of Highway 281 South at Josephine Street, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.
TxDOT cameras show police blocking multiple lanes of traffic on Highway 281 South. Officials report at least five lanes are blocked on the busy highway. The incident happened around 8:15 a.m.
Details are limited at the moment but drivers stuck in traffic appear to be travelling at a slow pace. SigAlert, a traffic monitoring site, shows cars moving as slow as 1 mph with traffic backed up all the way to St. Mary’s. The area this incident is in is not far from Alamo Stadium and the San Antonio Zoo, and it’s impacting southbound traffic heading toward downtown.
