Triple shooting on the West Side leaves month-old baby in critical condition, father in custody

By Chris Quinn, mySA.com / San Antonio Express-News

Updated 9:44 am CDT, Saturday, April 4, 2020

Nineteen-year-old Lance Tello has been charged in the shooting of his month-old daughter, his mother, 49, and his sister, 14, in what San Antonio Police Chief William McManus called a mental-health related incident on the far West Side.

Officers responded to a call of a shooting about 2:15 a.m. to the 9600 block of Forks Drive where they discovered the three shooting victims, McManus said. Tello was in a bedroom with his daughter and another person when according to that witness, he picked up a gun and shot his daughter, according to a police report.

Tello’s mother and sister went to the room after hearing the shots and that’s when Tello fired two more times, hitting them each once, the report stated.

The child and 14-year-old girl were taken to University Hospital in critical condition where they underwent surgery, according to the report. The mother was also transported to University Hospital, but is in stable condition.

There were no details on what led to the shooting but McManus said there is a “mental-health issue associated with the shooter.” The suspect shooter was arrested without incident about a block away after witnesses say he walked away from the residence after the shooting.

There were a total of nine people in the home at the time of shooting, but no other injuries were reported,

Tello has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.