A man and woman who were said to be friends were found dead after overnight flooding in San Antonio, the city’s police chief said Monday.
An acquaintance reported the pair missing, and another friend found the woman’s body Monday, Chief William McManus told NBC affiliate WOAI of San Antonio.
The man was found roughly 100 yards downstream along a section of Salado Creek near San Antonio International Airport, the chief said.
San Antonio received more than 4 inches of rain by 7 a.m. Monday, according to National Weather Service data. Two inches fell within a three-hour span late Sunday, the weather service numbers show.
“Both of them, we believe, got washed up in the water last night or this morning,” McManus said. “Apparently, they were friends.”
He added that the two “appear to be” homeless.
Their identities have not been disclosed, and the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for information Monday evening.
McManus said the deaths are under investigation.
Salado Creek north of downtown is described by the chief as a location of homeless encampments and tunnels. The city has transformed some of the historic creek, known as the location of a key battle against Mexican forces in 1842, into a “greenway” for hikers and pedestrians.
The region was under a federal flood watch overnight and into the morning, with forecasters saying that rainstorms were whipped up by a “frontal boundary” between two air masses, one warm, one cool — a classic recipe for downpours.
The region was expected to remain dry through Friday after the last of the rain-producing clouds move east on Monday, the weather service said.
John Filippelli contributed.
