SAN ANTONIO – A suspect has been arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with the deadly shooting of a man on the Southwest Side.<\/p>\n
53-year-old Augustin D. Meyer has been arrested and charged with Capital Murder after allegedly shooting and killing 59-year-old Juan Alejandro Sanchez.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, August 1, police responded to the scene of a reported shooting. According to the arrest affidavit, dispatchers reported hearing a man in distress over the phone, and ultimately hearing what sounded like a gunshot.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, officers located the victim in the office portion of a warehouse building. The victim, later identified as Sanchez, was found with a gunshot wound to the chest. <\/p>\n
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police screened the rest of the offices and did not find anyone else inside.<\/p>\n
During the search of the crime scene, a revolver was found abandoned underneath a blue bandana inside the warehouse, far from where the victim was found.<\/p>\n
Video surveillance from the scene allegedly showed the suspect, identified as Augustin D. Meyer, wearing a blue bandana before the shooting.<\/p>\n
Upon his detention, officers found the victim’s smartwatch in Meyer’s pocket. Officers observed the contents of the victim’s wallet to be “strewn about the warehouse.”<\/p>\n
Speaking with detectives, Meyer said that he did not know Sanchez personally, but picked him up to help him load tools into his truck.<\/p>\n
Meyer then told detectives that Sanchez allegedly told him that he was having money problems, and that Sanchez had told Meyer to shoot him in the chest because Sanchez had a large life insurance policy.<\/p>\n
Meyer also told detectives that Sanchez had given him both the money in his wallet and the smartwatch.<\/p>\n
Detectives spoke to the family, who told them that the victim only had an insurance policy from work.<\/p>\n
Augustin D. Meyer has since been arrested and charged with Capital Murder by Terroristic Threat\/Other Felony. He remains in custody of the Bexar County Jail on a bond of $600,000.<\/p>\n
The shooting remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A suspect has been arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with the deadly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-396304","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\/396304","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=396304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}