SAN ANTONIO – Two people are dead after heavy rainfall swept through the area Sunday night. The bodies were found Monday afternoon on Maltsberger Lane near Salado Creek on the city’s North Side.
According to the San Antonio Police Department, around 12:15 p.m. officers were called to the 12500 block of Maltsberger Lane for reports of a deceased person in the nearby creek. An unidentified female was found along the edge of the creek bed, deceased from an apparent drowning, police said.
Officers searched the area for other possible victims, after being notified of three missing homeless people who had not been seen since the Sunday evening’s rainstorm. A deceased male victim was found nearby and retrieved with the help of the San Antonio Fire Department’s rescue team.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said the police were notified by friends of the missing couple that they were missing. “We got word from another individual who was a friend of the decedents that they came across the body, and we went down, checked it out. And yes, there was an individual down there, a female, adult female, who got caught up in the water. And then about 100 yards down, further down the creek, there was another body of a male, an adult male.”
District 9 Councilwoman Misty Spears says addressing the city’s storm water issues will be impactful to the homeless population.
“I think this is just another time where we are seeing how we’ve got to take care of the people that are homeless, address the root cause, and how important it is we deal with the drainage and storm water all over the city,” Spears said. “This perception that District 9 has less or needs less of that kind of attention is incorrect as we just saw.”
Chief McManus says the two were most likely homeless. “We don’t know 100% what happened, and we won’t until we get further into the investigation,” said Chief McManus.
The third missing individual was found safe, and police say there are no other people unaccounted for in this incident.