Dealership owner chases, shoots man who paid with fake check, police say

1 person dead after shooting on Loop 410 access road

SAN ANTONIO – The owner of a West Side car dealership is charged with murder after he chased after and shot a man accused of buying a car with a fraudulent check, San Antonio police said.

SAPD spokesman Officer Doug Greene said a shooting was reported shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday on the access road of Loop 410 near Ingram Road. A Hispanic man in his mid 30s was found dead in a car with a single gunshot wound at a nearby Jack in the Box.

Munir Ayyoub Ammari, 47, who owns Auto Price Busters off Loop 410 near Bandera Road, is charged with murder. He is being held on a $100,000 bond.

"At some point today, (the suspect) was calling SAPD to make a report because he realized that a car that he sold to the victim was purchased by the use of a fraudulent check," Greene said.

He said it appears the victim drove by as Ammari was making the report. Ammari then got into a car with his son and began to chase after the victim, police said.

Ammari confronted the victim in a verbal altercation at Bandera Road and Loop 410 before the victim drove away, Greene said.

"Once they got to the area of (Loop) 410 and (Ingram Road), the suspect boxed the victim in with his vehicle, got out of his vehicle, displayed a handgun and fatally shot the driver," Greene said.

Police said Ammari and the victim both pulled into the Jack in the Box, where the victim was pronounced dead.

Greene said police were able to charge Ammari with murder based on information gathered by the homicide unit and witness accounts. He said police do not plan on charging his son.


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