{"id":435237,"date":"2026-09-14T03:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435237\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T03:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:18:20","slug":"affidavit-phone-data-leads-police-to-pleasant-grove-shooting-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435237\/","title":{"rendered":"Affidavit: Phone data leads police to Pleasant Grove shooting suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police used social media and phone data to arrest a 19-year-old<\/a> man in connection with a June 14 fatal shooting that occurred after a backyard party in Dallas’ Pleasant Grove neighborhood, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old suspect was\u00a0arrested on Sept. 2<\/a> and faces a murder charge in connection with the death<\/a> of Isaiah Hernandez, 18.<\/p>\n

According to the affidavit, Dallas police officers were dispatched to a shooting call shortly before 2 a.m.<\/a> to a house in the 400 block of North Masters Drive. Once there, police determined a large party had taken place in the backyard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A witness told officers Hernandez had been “beat up\u201d by several people before the incident and provided to police Instagram accounts for who he thought knew the shooter.<\/p>\n

The suspect was known to Dallas police because of the suspect’s ties to a string of robbery offenses, according to the affidavit. Officers also determined one of the Instagram accounts belonged to him, and he had been arrested by Arlington police in 2025.<\/p>\n

Using Instagram data provided through a search warrant, police found pictures and videos of a pistol with a gold automatic switch sent from the suspect to a group chat. The affidavit also said the 19-year-old had denied online accusations that he’d been the shooter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officers learned from other witness statements there had been three gunshots in succession, leading them to believe the suspect had used a switch meant to make the gun fire automatically. Multiple witnesses also identified the 19-year-old as the shooter, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n

In July, detectives received T-Mobile data for the suspect’s phone, showing he’d been in the area of the shooting between 12 a.m. and 2 a.m.<\/p>\n

Phone and social media data, witness accounts, and pictures and videos shared of the pistol led police to arrest the 19-year-old.<\/p>\n

As of Sunday, he remains in the Dallas County jail with bail set at $400,000, according to jail records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police used social media and phone data to arrest a 19-year-old man in connection with a June 14…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103],"class_list":["post-435237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435237","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=435237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}