SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A 23-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with a fatal Aug. 30 shooting over a stolen basketball at Hemisfair Plaza.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest affidavit, Isean Eugene Hardeman was arrested Tuesday after police identified him as the suspect who shot 35-year-old Jonathan Henry Alderete once in the chest on a basketball court near the Tower of the Americas. Alderete was transported to SAMMC, where he died.<\/p>\n
Alderete and his friends encountered four suspects on e-scooters who took their basketball. When Alderete confronted them, a physical altercation broke out, and the suspect pulled out a handgun and shot him.<\/p>\n
Detectives tracked the shooter through downtown surveillance video as he fled on an e-scooter, walked through a motel parking lot, and rode VIA buses to the city’s East Side. Texas DPS identified Hardeman from transit footage, and two witnesses later positively identified him in a photo lineup.<\/p>\n
Covert detectives detained Hardeman during a traffic stop on Tuesday, Sept. 2, near his apartment on Lasses Boulevard. Police found him armed with a handgun matching the caliber of the crime scene evidence. A passenger in the vehicle also told investigators that Hardeman had admitted to being the shooter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A 23-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with a fatal Aug. 30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-426359","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\/426359","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=426359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}