Officials have identified a man gunned down Tuesday evening on the Southwest Side.

Anthony Villarreal, 35, was killed about 6 p.m. at Crystal Street and Commercial Avenue, near Interstate 35 and Division Avenue, the medical examiner's office said this morning.

KSAT-TV reported that the man was approached by more than one person and fatally shot. The station said police have identified witnesses to the shooting.

No descriptions of the attackers were immediately available, KSAT said.

Members of a nearby church told the station they were shaken up when they arrived at Tuesday services to find the bloody scene.

“Nothing like that has ever happened before. We're in a state of shock,” church member Santiago Hernandez told KSAT. “I'm just glad it didn't happen while church was going on, because there's no telling. The shooter could've run into the church.”

While officers were positioning their patrol cars to block off the scene, a car crashed into a police cruiser, hitting the driver's side door, the station said.

The officer in the car reportedly was taken to the hospital as a precaution.

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