2 Texas Probationary Officers Fired After Running Away from Gunfight

The San Antonio police department says two probationary officers were fired after they ran off during a gunfight this week.

Police Chief William McManus said the two probationary officers were accompanying Sergeant Steven Castillo when he was called early Monday morning to check out a disturbance at a home on Spring Dale Street.

The parents of the suspect, identified as Daniel Moncada, called 911 to help get their son under control. Castillo arrived with the probationary officers and confronted Moncada in a bedroom, Fox San Antonio reports.

Detectives said Moncada fired a shotgun toward Castillo; he returned fire, killing Moncada. Sources later claimed the two probationary officers ran off during the gunfire. McManus called it an "unavoidable shooting."

Regarding the firing McManus said, “I felt it best that these two officers need to look for another profession.”