{"id":271363,"date":"2025-10-02T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271363\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:58:12","slug":"man-caught-with-stolen-gun-silencer-inside-methodist-hospital-sapd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271363\/","title":{"rendered":"Man caught with stolen gun, silencer inside Methodist Hospital, SAPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">San Antonio police arrested a man on Monday morning after they say he brought a pistol to Methodist Hospital at the Medical Center, according to a police report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A hospital employee told police they saw David Mark Crenshaw, 66, carry what she believed was a rifle in front of the hospital\u2019s coffee shop. <\/p>\n<p>KSAT Investigates<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Hard-hitting journalism from the KSAT Investigates team delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">When an officer tried to stop Crenshaw, he ran away. The police report states an officer found him at a bus stop on Medical Drive, which runs along the northwest side of the hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">An SAPD officer noted Crenshaw had a rifle case wrapped in clothes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Inside that case, officers found a pistol, which the report described as a long gun with an arm brace and a silencer attached to the muzzle of the gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After searching through state and federal databases, SAPD said the gun was flagged as stolen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">An officer found THC oil vials in the backpack Crenshaw was carrying, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cEarlier today, one of our employees witnessed suspicious activity on our campus and reported it to our security team,\u201d said Methodist Healthcare spokesperson Ashley Funkhouser in an emailed statement to KSAT. \u201cWe are deeply grateful to the San Antonio Police Department, who responded quickly and resolved the situation without any disruption to patient care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Records show Crenshaw is facing several felony charges, including being a felon in possession of a firearm, possessing a weapon in a prohibited place and drug possession. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Read more reporting on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/ksat-investigates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KSAT Investigates page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio police arrested a man on Monday morning after they say he brought a pistol to Methodist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":271364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,4219,31872,47780,135746,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-271363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-ksat-investigates","11":"tag-medical-center","12":"tag-methodist-hospital","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-sanantonio","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115303515026011880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}