{"id":302927,"date":"2026-05-21T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302927\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:01:39","slug":"murder-suspect-arrested-after-deadly-bee-county-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302927\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder suspect arrested after deadly Bee County shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A man is behind bars after Bee County investigators say he was involved in a deadly shooting that left a 42-year-old woman dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, deputies responded early Saturday morning to the 200 block of Treptow Road in the Blueberry Hill area after reports of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived, they found the woman suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Authorities say she died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators later identified Tomas Suniga Jr. as the suspect in the case. Deputies arrested him Saturday afternoon along U.S. Highway 181.<\/p>\n<p>Suniga was booked into the Bee County Jail on a murder charge.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not released the identity of the victim or additional details surrounding the investigation. The case remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/murder-suspect-arrested-deadly-bee-county-shooting\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A man is behind bars after Bee County investigators say he was involved in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-302927","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\/302927","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=302927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}