{"id":440272,"date":"2026-09-18T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440272\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:18:09","slug":"man-sentenced-to-10-years-deferred-adjudication-in-shooting-death-of-saisd-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440272\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 10 years deferred adjudication in shooting death of SAISD student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A 19-year-old man charged in connection with the shooting death of an SAISD student last year has been sentenced to 10 years of deferred adjudication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Fernando Flores was one of five people charged after Simon Cuevas was fatally shot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Cuevas was found with a gunshot wound to his stomach at the corner of South Elmendorf Street and Merida Street, near Brewer Academy, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Investigators said surveillance video showed a group of five people following Cuevas as he left school. He was later attacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Flores and the other suspects were originally charged with capital murder. A grand jury later indicted them on a third-degree felony charge of injury to a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">On Thursday, Flores was granted 10 years of deferred adjudication. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">If he violates the terms at any point during that period, the probation could be revoked and replaced with prison time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Another suspect in the case, identified as 19-year-old Andrew Cantu, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Caesar Tijerina, 20, died by suicide in Laredo amid the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A 19-year-old man charged in connection with the shooting death of an SAISD student last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[815,294,4042,82,84,83,23798],"class_list":["post-440272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-saisd","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-simon-cuevas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440272","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=440272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}