{"id":258053,"date":"2026-04-20T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258053\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:18:11","slug":"murder-leads-to-arrest-after-fight-on-mimosa-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258053\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder leads to arrest after fight on Mimosa Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police say victim died after a fight on Saturday night. Police have arrested the suspect and booked on murder and aggravated assault charges. <\/p>\n

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A man was arrested on Sunday in connection with a deadly fight on Mimosa Drive that left one person dead, according to the Corpus Christi Police Department.<\/p>\n

Police said the incident happened Saturday, April 18, 2026, around 8 p.m. in the 3600 block of Mimosa Drive, where officers responded to a report of a fight with injuries.<\/p>\n


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When officers arrived, medics were already performing CPR on a man who had been injured. The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he later died of his injuries.<\/p>\n

Detectives identified a suspect during the investigation and obtained an arrest warrant for murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n

On April 19, 2026, police located and arrested Justice Martinez. He was interviewed and then taken to the City Detention Center.<\/p>\n

Several people were detained at the scene and questioned as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n

Police say the case remains active. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Corpus Christi Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at 361-886-2840.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say victim died after a fight on Saturday night. Police have arrested the suspect and booked on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-258053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258053","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=258053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}