San Antonio Police Kill Probation Department/Jail Security Guard

by Matt Clarke

Jimmy James Garza, Jr. was 31 years old and had worked at the Bexar County Community Supervision and Corrections Department in San Antonio, Texas as a security monitor for ten years when he was shot and killed by police responding to a complaint that he had beaten his former girlfriend.

Despite having broken up with Garza following an eight-month relationship, the girlfriend, 34, a probation officer since 2007, met with Garza at a bar. Things seemed normal and he offered to drive her home. During the drive he began beating her.

"Everything was OK until he suddenly began beating her while he was driving," according to a police report. The report went on to say that Garza handcuffed his former girlfriend and repeatedly told her "this was going to be his last night alive." The report said that he dragged her by her handcuffed wrists inside his house and threatened to shoot her with a handgun. Eventually, she convinced him that her injuries required medical attention and suggested that she tell hospital officials that she was injured in a fall. Garza agreed to take her to the hospital, but said that her injuries were more consistent with a traffic accident and insisted that they stage one.

Once outside the home, the woman refused to go along with the plan to stage a traffic accident. Garza drove away from her home, crashed into a fence a few blocks away, fled the scene, and returned to his house. While he was away, the woman persuaded neighbors to call 911. When police responded, they found the former girlfriend suffering from bruised lips, swollen eyes and a cut on her forehead. She was transported to a hospital where she gave police Garza’s name and address.

Garza refused to come out of his house when police arrived on scene. The standoff ended hours later when Garza came out of his house holding a rifle, charging towards deployed SWAT officers; the officers responded by shooting him multiple times.

Source: www.mysanantonio.com