{"id":437153,"date":"2026-09-16T00:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437153\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T00:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:18:14","slug":"san-antonio-man-accused-of-firing-shots-outside-coconuts-bar-after-tab-dispute-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437153\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio man accused of firing shots outside Coconuts bar after tab dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 24-year-old San Antonio man was arrested Sunday after allegedly firing several shots outside a bar in Central El Paso, according to the El Paso Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to a shots-fired call around 4:40 p.m. Sept. 13 in the 800 block of Piedras Street. <\/p>\n<p>Officers nearby reportedly saw Joseph Alexander Aguilar get into a dark-colored vehicle and leave the area. <\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was quickly stopped, and Aguilar was taken into custody, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Aguilar had been inside Coconuts bar when an argument began over a tab and an inability to pay it. <\/p>\n<p>Aguilar and another patron were escorted from the business, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege Aguilar later returned in a vehicle, pointed a gun at two people from outside the bar and fired multiple rounds into the air before leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Aguilar was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility. <\/p>\n<p>He faces two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of discharging a firearm in certain municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/woman-arrested-returned-to-el-paso-county-in-child-capital-murder-case?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Woman arrested, returned to El Paso County in child capital murder case<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 24-year-old San Antonio man was arrested Sunday after allegedly firing several shots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-437153","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\/437153","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=437153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}