A 15-year-old boy remains locked up in San Antonio after police say he attacked a 12-year-old girl at a Medical Center-area apartment complex, an assault so serious that paramedics rushed her to the hospital under the highest priority code emergency crews use. The teen told a judge he was only trying to protect his younger sister. The judge wasn’t swayed enough to let him go home just yet.
The confrontation happened when a bus pulled up in the 4600 block of Gardendale, off Wurzbach, according to a San Antonio Police Department report cited by KENS 5. Police say a conflict had broken out among several children, and the older, bigger teen ended up attacking the girl while he was, by his own account, shielding his younger sister. Officers arrested him at the scene. Emergency medical crews transported the girl to a nearby hospital using a Priority 1 code, the outlet reported, a designation that within San Antonio EMS dispatch protocols can indicate the possibility of life-threatening injuries. Police have not released the girl’s name.
The teen’s father told the outlet the family believed trouble was coming, having heard a threat of a physical attack beforehand. He said he had told his son to separate the children because other kids were running to jump on them. The father also said the family moved to the United States 11 years ago. Eyewitnesses and surveillance video captured the confrontation, per the same account.
Judge Orders Detention, Delivers a Warning
The case landed before Bexar County 436th Juvenile District Court Judge William “Cruz” Shaw, who found probable cause to move forward with charges at a detention hearing held Tuesday. Shaw, elected in 2022 as the first Black man to hold a state district judgeship in Bexar County’s history after previously representing District 2 on the San Antonio City Council, told the family that violence is not an answer, according to Hoodline’s prior coverage of Shaw’s courtroom approach. Directly addressing the teen, Shaw said, “It’s different times. We can’t do that any more. You can’t throw punches, you can’t hit people.”…