(CNN) -- A police chief in a small Texas town
was shot multiple times during a traffic stop
Saturday afternoon and later died, authorities
said.
Michael Pimentel served in Elmendorf, a suburb
southeast of San Antonio with about 1,500
residents.
According to Rosanne Hughes, spokeswoman of
the Bexar County Sheriff's Office, Pimentel pulled
over a vehicle in a residential area. There was a
struggle and Pimentel was shot, Hughes said.
The chief was flown by helicopter to University
Hospital in San Antonio, where he died of his
wounds, according to Hughes.
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office took 24-year-
old Joshua Manuel Lopez into custody and he will
face charges of capital murder of a police officer,
said Hughes.
According to Hughes, Lopez had an active
misdemeanor warrant for graffiti at the time he
was pulled over.
At a press conference, Sheriff Susan L. Pamerleau
expressed her department's condolences and said
"even on a quiet, peaceful day in a small town, it
can turn deadly in an instant."
Before he was Elmendorf's top officer, Pimentel
served as police chief of the San Antonio
Independent School District, according to the
Officer Down Memorial Page.
A call placed to what is believed to be the Lopez
family residence was not immediately returned.
From CNN's Joseph Netto
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