Murder gun found in refrigerator; San Antonio man gets 40 years for 2023 shooting<\/a><\/p>\nInvestigators determined Hernandez-Rivas and co-defendant Marco Antonio Moreno Vasquez confronted Fernandez over a financial dispute, according to the district attorney\u2019s office. Evidence showed Moreno Vasquez provided Hernandez-Rivas with a firearm and instructed him to shoot during the confrontation, the release said.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video captured the shooting and provided images of the suspects and the suspect vehicle\u2019s license plate, according to the district attorney\u2019s office. Days later, Atascosa County law enforcement located the vehicle during a traffic stop, and Hernandez-Rivas and Moreno Vasquez were identified and taken into custody, the release said.<\/p>\n
Investigators later recovered the murder weapon from Moreno Vasquez\u2019s residence, where it was concealed inside a refrigerator among food items, according to the district attorney\u2019s office. Ballistics testing confirmed the firearm matched shell casings recovered from the homicide scene, the release said.<\/p>\n
Moreno Vasquez was previously convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in the murder, according to the district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Assistant Criminal District Attorneys Meghan Galloway and Lauren Espinoza led the prosecution, with support from Victim Advocate Rose Perez and Investigator Rudy Rangel, the release said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case demonstrates that everyone who plays a role in a violent crime will be held accountable,\u201d Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales said. \u201cToday\u2019s sentence brings another measure of justice for Duniel Valladares Fernandez and his loved ones. I want to thank our prosecutors, investigators, victim advocate, and our law enforcement partners for their dedication and commitment to seeing this case through to its conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A co-defendant in the February 2023 shooting death of Duniel Valladares Fernandez has been sentenced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-384409","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\/384409","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=384409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}