SAN ANTONIO – Alarm clocks and wakeup calls took a back seat to loudspeaker announcements and the sound of pepper spray being fired into several rooms at a Northeast Side motel early Thursday morning.
Guests at the Motel 6, located near Interstate 35 and Rittiman Road, woke up to the commotion, which began with one man waving down a San Antonio police officer around 4 a.m.
“The victim informed the officer that he had been robbed and assaulted,” said Ximena Alvarez, a public relations manager for the San Antonio Police Department.
Alvarez said the man was bleeding from his head and body when the officer contacted him.
At some point later, police determined that the suspects in the robbery and assault were also at the motel, spread across at least two other rooms.
Officers called in a SWAT team after having no luck making contact with anyone in the rooms.
A negotiator …