On August 6, 2024, 58-year-old Harold Woodrow Woody Thomas II died at his home in the 12400 block of Starcrest Drive in San Antonio, Texas. Police say Thomas was taking out trash early that morning while carrying a firearm; he slipped on a patch of wet, muddy grass, fell down a slight hill, and the gun dropped and discharged, producing a fatal chest wound. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the cause of death an accidental gunshot wound to the chest.

Investigators recovered the firearm near the trash bags and found no evidence of foul play. A neighbor reported hearing an argument before the shot, so police conducted a thorough investigation, but no arrests were made and no suspects were identified. Thomas, known as Woody, is remembered in the report as fun-loving, a comic book fan, devoted to his wife Sarah Jane Broadmeadow (married 2007), an uncle and a coworker at Spectrum.

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