San Antonio police chief William McManus said officers responded to a “suicide in progress call” late yesterday at an apartment complex north of the city.
“The first officer who arrived was shot, and six others subsequent to that were shot as well,” McManus said in a video post on Facebook.
A man in his 40s “barricaded himself inside the apartment for several hours”, he said.
“At the end of the event the suspect was found to be deceased,” McManus added, noting it was not immediately known whether the suspect took his own life or was shot by SWAT officers at the scene.
At least four officers were transported to hospital with injuries that were non-life-threatening, he said.
The conditions of the other three were unclear.
Shootings are alarmingly commonplace in the US, where there are more guns than people.
Since Jan 1 there have been at least 16 mass shootings – defined as a shooting involving at least four victims, dead or wounded – across the country, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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