{"id":381833,"date":"2026-07-22T02:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381833\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T02:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:54:08","slug":"murder-gun-found-in-refrigerator-san-antonio-man-gets-40-years-for-2023-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381833\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder gun found in refrigerator; San Antonio man gets 40 years for 2023 shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 40 years behind bars for the 2023 murder of Duniel Valladares Fernandez.<\/p>\n

Marco Antonio Moreno Vasquez was formally sentenced on Tuesday after a Bexar County jury found him guilty of murder. Jurors also sentenced Moreno Vasquez to six years for deadly conduct. Both sentences will be served concurrently.<\/p>\n

In February 2023, officers responded to reports of gunfire and found Fernandez suffering from a gunshot wound to his upper body. He was was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Two suspects arrested on murder charges, sheriff says<\/a><\/p>\n

Investigators said surveillance video captured the shooting and provided detectives with the suspect vehicle’s license plate, along with images of those involved.<\/p>\n

Within days, law enforcement officers in Atascosa County located the vehicle during a traffic stop. Moreno Vasquez was identified as an occupant and taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n

Investigators also recovered four shell casings from the crime scene that were consistent with the firearm used in the shooting.<\/p>\n

The murder weapon was later found hidden inside a refrigerator at Moreno Vasquez’s residence, concealed among food items. Ballistics testing confirmed the shell casings recovered from the scene matched the firearm recovered from the home, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

During the trial, prosecutors argued that Moreno Vasquez and co-defendant Adis Hernandez-Rivas confronted Fernandez over a financial dispute that ultimately led to Fernandez\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

The district attorney’s office said Hernandez-Rivas previously accepted a plea agreement in the case and is scheduled to be sentenced later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 40 years behind bars for the 2023…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-381833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381833","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=381833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}