Benjamin Marconi suspect

An intense manhunt is underway in San Antonio, Texas for a gunman who shot a San Antonio police detective in front of police headquarters on Sunday morning.

Detective Benjamin Marconi, 50, was ambushed and shot as he sat in his marked cruiser writing out a traffic ticket. He later died at a hospital.

“I think that the uniform was the target,” said San Antonio Police Chief William McManus at a press conference on Monday.

McManus said local, state and federal authorities are “pulling out all the stops” to capture the gunman.

Marconi had just pulled over a motorist and was issuing a traffic ticket when a black car with chrome rims parked behind his cruiser.

A black man emerged from the vehicle, walked up to the passenger side of Marconi’s police cruiser and shot him twice.

The man then got back into the suspect vehicle, drove into the parking lot of police headquarters and exited the south parking lot.

Police released a blurred image of the suspect’s vehicle.

The suspect is believed to be the same man who walked into police headquarters about 4 hours earlier, spoke briefly to a clerk then left the building.

Marconi was a 20-year veteran of the police department.