{"id":206929,"date":"2026-03-16T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/206929\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:41:07","slug":"san-antonio-teen-in-first-court-hearing-after-port-aransas-beach-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/206929\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio teen in first court hearing after Port Aransas Beach shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 17-year-old accused of shooting five at Beach Marker 20 faces court Monday. Police continue to investigate the Saturday night incident.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 17-year-old suspect Ernesto Castillo appeared in his first court hearing Monday following a Saturday night shooting at a Port Aransas beach that sent five people to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/ill-never-forget-it-witness-tells-of-horror-during-port-aransas-shooting\/503-34e4d346-6ed5-4ee9-be0c-6a0a5c28425d\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2019I\u2019ll Never Forget It\u2019: Witness tells of horror during Port Aransas shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, a judge set the teen&#8217;s bond at $100,000 and appointed a court\u2011appointed attorney to represent him.<\/p>\n<p>Port Aransas police are investigating the shooting, which occurred late Saturday near Beach Marker 20. According to Police Chief James Stokes, a preliminary investigation indicates an altercation broke out between two groups on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>During the fight, a firearm was drawn, and multiple shots were fired. Police say the victims are in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released additional details about the motive, and further court dates for the teen have not yet been scheduled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. Stay with 3NEWS for the latest updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"17-year-old accused of shooting five at Beach Marker 20 faces court Monday. Police continue to investigate the Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-206929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}