San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)
Teen indicted in fatal bar shooting
A San Antonio teenager has been indicted on a murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting in December of a man who allegedly had argued with his mother at a South Side bar.
The case involving Bryan Gonzalez, 18, was among 248 felony indictments handed up last week by two Bexar County grand juries.
A fight Dec. 6 at the Tres Amigas Bar at 10703 Pleasanaton Road turned to gunfire and spilled outside. Arriving police officers found Santiago Sanchez, 37, with multiple gunshot wounds. He later died at a local hospital.
According to an affidavit supporting Gonzalez's arrest, his mother, listed as a witness in the document, told police that he and another of her sons, an unnamed 16-year-old, were responsible for the shooting and that she had summoned them there.
Sanchez and Gonzalez had a prior history of enmity, and Sanchez had threatened the mother in the bar because of it, the woman told authorities.
Video footage captured from inside the bar shows Gonzalez and a juvenile arriving at Tres Amigas with guns and talking to their mother and another witness, who point out Sanchez, who is standing nearby, the affidavit states.
A verbal altercation between Gonzalez, the juvenile and Sanchez ensued before Sanchez was struck by gunshots, the affidavit states. The pair then left the scene.
The case is being prosecuted in the 175th District Court. If convicted, Gonzalez faces up to life in prison. It is unclear if the juvenile was charged.
Also indicted was Edwin Sanabria-Pena, 26, charged with intoxication manslaughter in the death of Gabriella Padilla on Jan. 1.
According to TV reports, Sanabria-Pena was driving a Dodge pickup on Culebra Road at Zarzamora on the evening of New Year's Day when he ran a red light and hit a Chevrolet pickup. The force of the crash caused the Chevrolet to hit a Jeep Patriot.
Padilla, 53, a backseat passenger in the Chevrolet, died at the scene. Three others were hospitalized with serious injuries, as was a passenger in the Jeep. The suspect also was hospitalized with minor injuries.
Police later determined Sanabria-Pena was intoxicated, and he was arrested on charges of intoxication manslaughter and three counts of intoxication assault.
The case is being prosecuted in the 437th District Court. If convicted of the second-degree felony, he faces up to 20 years in prison.