We just went to eat at a Mexican restaurant in Helotes, the Chaparral, rather than risk our safety in the downtown “fiesta.”
My 1st husband and I always took the cub with us to the fiesta festivities at market square-until 1978-while we were walking around looking at all the stuff at the booths, we heard gunshots-grabbed the cub and went into a building-there were people running around and yelling, cops all over the place, etc. We decamped with haste. We later learned that an argument in a group of people had turned into a gunfight and several people were injured. We never went to the river for Fiesta again. I’m delighted to live two counties away from SA...