Landscaping Business Devastated as Three are Killed by Fellow Employee | Crime Alert 4PM 11.11.25

Three employees are gunned down at a northeast San Antonio landscaping business by a coworker who later took his own life. A Southern California woman leads police on a two-hour chase from Ventura County to the U.S.–Mexico border, crossing into Mexico before authorities could stop her. Drew Nelson reports.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Al Art hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm
Drew Nelson. Three employees are gunned down at a northeast
San Antonio landscaping business by a coworker who later took
his own life. Police say twenty one year old Jose
Hernandez Gallo open fire just before eight am at Mission
Landscape Supplies on Stall Road, killing Selvin Chacone h forty eight,

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Sergio Chacone thirty eight, and Karen Bautista twenty four. All
four worked at the company. San Antonio Police Chief William
McManus told reporters the attack was quote not random, though
detectives are still searching for a particular motive. Officers rushed
the scene after employees fled and called nine to one one.
Nearby residents were urged to sheelter indoors while police used drones,

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canine units, and helicopters to search for the shooter. Around
eleven forty that morning, Gallo was found dead from a
self inflicted gunshot wound. Former Mission Landscape Supplies general manager
Jamie McCollum, who led the company for nearly a decade,
says he cannot believe what happened.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Speaking to kans I could never imagine this happening at
this place, So I reached out to him and he
responded and did confirm that you know it was in
fact taking place. Is absolutely heartbreaking. They were just wonderful people.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
McCollum said, Mission Landscape Supplies had always been a positive,
close knit workplace where coworkers treated each other like family.
Police identified Gallo as the gunman after interviewing surviving employees
who escaped the building when the shots rang out. Chief
McManus says investigators are combing through evidence, interviewing witnesses, and
reviewing surveillance footage to understand what led up to the killings.

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Mission Landscape Supplies remains close more crime man Justice News.
After this, a southern California woman leads police on a
two hour chase from Ventura County to the US Mexico border,
crossing into Mexico before authorities could stop her. The driver

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was identified as twenty nine year old Alyssa Wilson of
Seem Valley, who allegedly stole a gray Toyota Siena minivan
from a sober living home on East Hillcrest Drive in
Thousand Oaks around ten thirty five am. According to the
Ventura County Sheriff's Office deputies spotted the vehicles soon after,
but when they tried to pull her over in see
Me Valley, Wilson sped away on State Route peint eighteen,

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reaching speeds near ninety miles an hour. She continued through
Los Angeles County into Orange County, staying mostly on the
southbound four oh five before transitioning onto the Five towards
San Diego. The California Highway Patrol took over the pursuit
once the chase made it out of venture A County.
Officers attempted at least four spike strips stops, including one

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that failed to deploy correctly on the five near Ocean Side,
but Wilson avoided them each time. According to CHP, her
mother had called dispatchers during the chase, saying her daughter
was experiencing a mental health crisis. Traffic remained unusually light
as Wilson drove roughly one hundred and fifty five miles,
mostly within the speed limit and in her own lane

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by about one to twenty five peas she merged onto
the southbound eight oh five freeway, passed through Chula Vista,
and reached the Sandy Seadro Portamentary, where she drove across
the border into Mexico. The CHP terminated their pursuit once
Wilson crossed into Tijuana, and US officials have not confirmed
whether Mexican authorities detained her. The Ventura County Crime Stoppers

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Program is offering a reward up to one thousand dollars
for information leading to her arrest. Tipsters can remain anonymous,
calling eight hundred two to two tips. More than six years
after Donna Hatfield vanished from her home in Boonville, Indiana,
her family and investigators are still searching for answers. The
seventy two year old, who was living with dementia, was
last seen around May twenty fifth of twenty nineteen at

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her residence on North First Street, where she lived with
her son, Thomas Rainey Junior. Hatfield's medication, identification, and clothing
were all left behind. Family members reported her missing months
later August twenty sixth, after they could no longer reach her.
Despite extensive searches using cadaver dogs, sonar, ground penetrating radar,
and dive teams, no trace of her has ever been found.

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In May this year, the Boonville Police Department and FBI
Indianapolis Field Office held a press conference to renew attention
on the case ahead of Mother's Day. Hatfield's health had
declined in the years before she disappeared. She was diagnosed
with Alzheimer's and had begun forgetting things and losing interest
in eating. Her son arrived in twenty fifteen to act
as her caregiver. Police confirmed that the Southwestern Indiana Regional

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Council on Aging had been contacted for assistance that summer,
but services were ultimately declined by her caregiver. More new
attention came in August when Donna's son, Thomas Rainey Junior,
filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Boonville, the
police department, and some individual officers. Rainey claimed he was
unlawfully targeted as a suspect and wrongfully arrested in twenty

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twenty three on forgery and fraud charges, accusations that were
later dismissed. Court filings alleged police sought to pressure him
into confessing his involvement in his mother's disappearance. Rainie maintains
his innocence, that he acted under a valid power of attorney,
and that his arrest violated his constitutional rights. Donna Hatfield
was five four one twenty five, white with gray hair

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and hazel eyes. Anyone with information about Donna Hatfield's disappearance
Deserts to contact eight hundred, call FBI, or tips dot
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