Police: Two men held after fatal shooting
An argument over money ended in a fatal shooting and the arrest of two Atascosa County men, investigators said.
Marco Antonio Moreno-vasquez, 34, and Adis Hernandezrivas, 24, were arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder.
On Feb. 16, Bexar County deputies were called to the 7700 block of Winsford in east Bexar County, where they found 32year-old Duniel Valladares Fernandez on the ground in the front yard. He had been shot in the upper body.
He was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Surveillance video footage from a home security system showed Moreno-vasquez and Hernandez-rivas approaching the front gate of the home while Fernandez walks over to meet them. In the video, the three men converge at the front gate and have a conversation that appears to become increasingly intense, according to an affidavit supporting the arrests.
Investigators later learned that Moreno-vasquez and Fernandez were arguing because the latter owed the former money.
In the video, Hernandez-rivas can be seen reaching for something in his front pocket before raising his right arm Investigators
said the gun was outside the video’s frame but that Hernandez-rivas’ arm can be seen recoiling as if he were firing a gun. Also, they said that particles of dust and dirt appear, consistent with the shockwave of a gun being fired.
Video footage also shows a light-colored SUV enter and exit the neighborhood around the time of the shooting, which deputies tracked to an Atascosa home where Moreno-vasquez and Hernandez-rivas lived with Moreno-vasquez’s wife.
On Thursday, deputies conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle and arrested Moreno-vasquez and Hernandez-rivas, who were in the vehicle at the time.
Deputies matched the men’s physical features to the suspects in the video, including Hernandez-rivas’ distinctive neck tattoo, the affidavit said.
When questioned by investigators, Hernandez-rivas said that he and Moreno-vasquez were armed when they went to the house on Winsford. He said
Moreno-vasquez and Fernandez started physically fighting and that the latter removed a knife from his pocket. Morenovasquez allegedly started hitting Fernandez with the gun, and that’s when Hernandez-rivas started shooting, the affidavit said.
Moreno-vasquez told police a different story, claiming that he didn’t know why they went to the home, only that Hernandezrivas wanted to go. He said that while the three were talking, Fernandez reached to pull something out of his pocket and Hernandez-rivas shot him.