{"id":417984,"date":"2026-08-27T06:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417984\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T06:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:18:08","slug":"man-accused-of-sucker-punching-a-70-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417984\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of sucker punching a 70-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A 42-year-old man is accused of punching a 70-year-old man during an argument over a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Valdez Jr. faces a state jail felony charge of injury to a child, elderly, or disabled individual through criminal negligence.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to an assault report Tuesday at 11807 South Foster Road on the Southeast Side. 70-year-old Eugene Clifton Mcbee Jr. told investigators that Valdez had been visiting his girlfriend, Janie Salazar, who resides in an RV located 20 yards from Mcbee&#8217;s home on the property.<\/p>\n<p>Mcbee stated that Salazar requested he give Valdez a ride home using her vehicle. An argument subsequently broke out regarding who was going to drive. During the dispute, Valdez allegedly sucker-punched Mcbee from behind, striking him in the mouth. Police records show Mcbee suffered a swollen bottom lip and had dried blood on his mouth, chin, and beard. Photographs of the injuries were documented and submitted as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Following the altercation, Valdez reportedly entered Salazar&#8217;s vehicle and fled the scene, nearly striking Mcbee as he drove away. Mcbee reported feeling pain from the strike and signed a declaration of complaint stating his intent to pursue criminal charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A 42-year-old man is accused of punching a 70-year-old man during an argument over a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-417984","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\/417984","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=417984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}