Woman Records Her Husband's Murderer During Road Rage Incident, Police Haven't Yet Arrested Suspect

SAN ANTONIO - Self-defense or murder? That's the determination San Antonio homicide detectives must make following a deadly road rage shooting on the Far West Side earlier this week.

The shooting took place around 4:35 p.m. this past Monday after a minor traffic accident along the access road of Loop 1604 near Wiseman Boulevard, police said.

Ryan Wann, 39, was pronounced dead at the scene with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. Days later, police have not arrested the 59-year-old shooter, but a spokesperson for the San Antonio Police Department confirmed that detectives continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting.

Because SAPD hasn't released the shooter's name, his side of the story remains unclear. But Wann's widow, who was in the car with her husband and watched everything unfold, is sharing her account of how a fender bender turned into a deadly confrontation.

"I remember performing CPR, and I remember his last breath," said Cynthia Wann, 30. "We just want justice. We want this man to be held accountable."

Cynthia said she and Ryan had just finished a lunch date at a Mexican food restaurant and were almost back home when they found themselves in what would turn out to be a life-altering traffic accident.

"We were at a stoplight. The light turned green, and we were hit from behind, so we pulled over to exchange information," she recalled. "And that's where everything happened."

According to preliminary information from SAPD, "The drivers of both vehicles became involved in a verbal argument, which led to a physical confrontation. The suspect eventually displayed a handgun and fired several shots striking (Wann)."

The question now for investigators is whether the shooting was justified.

"This is not something that's justified," Cynthia insisted. "He did wrong."

"And now my brother doesn't even have a voice in this to say his side," added Wann's sister Melissa Hoye, 42. "The ripple effect of this is just too much."

Cynthia and Melissa both said they're furious the man with the gun hasn't been arrested.

"He shot someone," said Cynthia. "He killed someone, and now my kids don't have a dad."

In the days since the shooting, police have emphasized that the investigation remains active, but they've released few details about the nature of the physical confrontation that led up to Wann's death.

"We were all upset," said Cynthia, acknowledging that things got quite heated quite quickly after the collision. "And so that's when I told Ryan just to go (back to our car) and that I would get the information that we needed to get."

When she walked up to the man, who was sitting in his truck, he grabbed her arm and wouldn't let go, she claimed. "And that's when Ryan came and defended me."

"He manhandled her," said Hoye. "What would you do if he manhandled your wife?"

Cynthia insisted that cooler heads eventually prevailed at the scene, if only momentarily. "Once my arm was free, we left. We walked away."

But as soon as the altercation seemed to be over in her eyes, she claimed the other man got out of his vehicle and started walking up a nearby hill.

"We had removed ourselves, but we didn't realize he was removing himself to shoot Ryan," she said. "What the detective told me was that he was creating distance. He went up the hill and shot him from there. There was no need for that."

Cynthia recorded about 20 seconds of cell phone video almost immediately after the shooting. It shows the man standing on the sidewalk at the bottom of the hill, pointing his gun in her direction while Ryan lies in the middle of the road. Cynthia is heard screaming, "You shot my husband. Call 911. He shot my husband. Call 911."

The man is next seen lowering his gun to the sidewalk when another vehicle pulls up and tells him to drop the weapon. He then sits in the grass and waits for police to arrive.

"He just watched," Cynthia said. "He was very calm. Very calm."

According to preliminary information from police, the shooter and witnesses were taken downtown to provide statements, but charges (if any) remain pending.

"The detective is basically going off this man's word," an emotional Hoye said. "He wasn't even booked, processed, fingerprinted, nothing. They just detained him and let him go."

"And because he felt like he was in danger, it's okay," Cynthia added. "This guy gets to go home."