A 20-year-old man is accused of attacking two people with a broken glass bottle during separate assaults in San Antonio, according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
Alejandro Javier Ramirez Mercado is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the May 24 incidents, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n
San Antonio police were called to two separate assaults that occurred within minutes of each other, according to the affidavit. Investigators said both victims suffered cut wounds and were hospitalized.<\/p>\n
The victims told police an unknown man chased them before attacking them with a broken glass bottle. The assaults appeared to be unprovoked, investigators said.<\/p>\n
The suspect left both scenes before officers arrived, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n
Investigators later obtained video of one of the attacks and reviewed information from another call involving the same suspect. A positive identification was also made by the suspect’s probation officer, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Investigators later obtained a recorded statement from Ramirez Mercado, who allegedly admitted to attacking both victims while intoxicated. He also confirmed he had a glass bottle in his hand during the assaults, according to investigators.<\/p>\n
An arrest warrant was issued for Ramirez Mercado on the second-degree felony charge. The case remains pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man is accused of attacking two people with a broken glass bottle during separate assaults in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19780,3021,81962,136376,136375,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-386926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-affidavit","tag-bexar-county-jail","tag-glass-bottle","tag-javier-ramirez","tag-ramirez-mercado","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\/386926","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=386926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}