He told police he woke up around 4:29 a.m. local time on Sunday to find his daughter’s former partner damaging her car outside their family home in the 5000 block of Joslyn Lane in San Antonio, Texas.

He and his daughter then went outside to confront him, San Antonio police told KSAT.

The ex-boyfriend opened the front iron gate to the home and charged at his ex-girlfriend’s father, according to officials who spoke with the outlet.

The father, who was armed with a gun, told police he felt threatened and had the weapon to protect himself. He added that after telling the man to leave his property, he fired one shot.

Arriving officers found the 29-year-old on the ground with a gunshot wound, KSAT reported. Emergency workers attempted to save the man but he was later pronounced dead at the scene.

“I came outside and I saw somebody on the ground and I thought they were drunk or passed out or maybe they hit their head on the concrete,” Neighbor Judias Ramiras told the outlet in describing the scene.

The father was detained by police but has not been charged. The investigation is ongoing and the identity of the victim is so far unknown.

Footage from the scene, taken by KSAT12 News, showed a heavy police presence outside the home early on Sunday morning as well as the damaged windscreen of a car parked on the street.

Newsweek has contacted the San Antonio Police Department for comment.

This year could prove San Antonio’s deadliest in more than a decade, if current trends continue.

There were 74 homicides recorded in the first six months of 2021, according to San Antonio Police Department crime report data. The figure is more than any other year since 2011, when department data was made publicly available.

Although the number of deaths appears to have risen, violent crimes as a whole are down 13.5 percent, according to SAPD statistics.

The force determines violent crime to include rape, robbery and aggravated assault. All three are down compared to the year before and are at their lowest level since 2015.

Just last month, a woman was taken to hospital after she was stabbed multiple times inside the city’s Palladium movie theater.

The 32-year-old victim was walking out of the theater when a man came up behind her and stabbed her multiple times before running out the back door, police said.

San Antonio police told Newsweek that they believed the suspect was a man in his twenties.