CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A man has been arrested in connection with a deadly assault that occurred Saturday evening on Mimosa Drive, according to the Corpus Christi Police Department.<\/p>\n
Officers were dispatched to the 3600 block of Mimosa Drive near Leopard Street at approximately 8:00 p.m. on April 18, 2026, following reports of a fight with injuries. Upon arrival, they found Corpus Christi Fire Department medics performing CPR on a male victim.<\/p>\n
The victim was transported to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries, prompting a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n
Senior Officer Antonio Contreras reported that investigators from the Robbery\/Homicide Division responded to the scene and detained several individuals for questioning at the main police station.<\/p>\n
Through their investigation, detectives identified the suspect and obtained arrest warrants for murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n
Justice Martinez was located and taken into custody on April 19, 2026. Following an interview with detectives, he was transported to the City Detention Center.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains active and ongoing. The Corpus Christi Police Department is asking anyone with information about the incident to contact the Criminal Investigations Division at 361-886-2840.<\/p>\n
Those wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit tips online at https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/TipForm.aspx?ID=343&C=&T=<\/a>.<\/p>\n For the latest local news updates, click here<\/a>, or download the KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A man has been arrested in connection with a deadly assault that occurred Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,4908],"class_list":["post-259668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-northwest-side-corpus-christi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259668","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=259668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}