SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio mother is demanding answers after learning the man charged in her son\u2019s killing will not be prosecuted, following a grand jury finding that there was not enough evidence to move forward.<\/p>\n
Edward Trejo, 28, was shot to death last December along Cincinnati Avenue on the city\u2019s West Side. <\/p>\n
A suspect was arrested and charged with murder, but Trejo\u2019s family learned the district attorney\u2019s office would follow the grand jury\u2019s decision not to indict.<\/p>\n
Less than four months after Trejo\u2019s death, the district attorney\u2019s office is dropping the case against 41-year-old Paul Flores, who was accused of shooting and killing Trejo, also known as Edward \u201cFatso\u201d Trejo. Flores has claimed he shot Trejo in self-defense.<\/p>\n
Trejo\u2019s mother, Andrea, said the decision has left the family confused and upset.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a nightmare. I don\u2019t wish this pain on anyone,\u201d Andrea said.<\/p>\n
She said she believes the grand jury did not review everything before making its decision and questioned why the case was not pursued despite what she described as multiple witnesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cShow me, show the world, show them what you feel and what evidence you had when you have all these witnesses, at least six from the party that say otherwise,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Andrea said she was told a week ago that the district attorney would be reviewing the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says, Well, I\u2019m going over your son\u2019s case. I just got it. I only have a week or two a week to get this to them. I have 90 days, and it\u2019s the 80-something day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Now, she said, her family has to accept that the man accused of shooting her son will not face prosecution.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an injustice for my son. The DA did an injustice for my son,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Asked to explain the decision, the district attorney\u2019s office declined an on-camera interview and instead emailed a statement saying it is following the grand jury\u2019s decision. \u201cThis grand jury did not find probable cause to believe an offense occurred,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
The office also addressed the family\u2019s reaction, writing: \u201cWe understand that this outcome is disappointing to Edward\u2019s family, and we truly empathize with them on how difficult this news is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrea said her family does not want sympathy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was not given anything throughout these three months, I was hoping a detective would reach out to me. I would get some type, some type of assistance…but no, I got a call a week ago, and now all of a sudden, my son\u2019s killer is free,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The district attorney\u2019s office said the case could be refiled in the future if new evidence is discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio mother is demanding answers after learning the man charged in her son\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-212353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212353","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=212353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}