{"id":443748,"date":"2026-09-22T06:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T06:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443748\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T06:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T06:08:11","slug":"police-missing-15-year-old-found-dead-after-shooting-himself-stepfather-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443748\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Missing 15-year-old found dead after shooting himself; stepfather wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 15-year-old boy died after shooting himself inside his family\u2019s North Side home, and his stepfather was seriously injured when he tried to move the gun away, police said.<\/p>\n

San Antonio police identified the teen as Jesse Balderrama. Police said Balderrama shot himself inside the home on Marchmont Lane after he had returned from being reported missing. His 38-year-old stepfather was also shot after police said he tried to move the gun away from Jesse. The stepfather was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

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Neighbors said they were shocked and saddened.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had blood on her arm, and just fell on the floor,\u201d John Puente said, describing what he saw outside the home Sunday afternoon shortly after the shooting, when he said he saw Jesse\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

Puente said, \u201cI\u2019d never thought it end up this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neighbors said Jesse had dealt with mental health issues but seemed to be doing better recently. \u201cI would see him, and seemed like he was more upbeat,\u201d Jessica Gephart said.<\/p>\n

Puente said, \u201cThere were a couple of times where I think he tried to overdose, so I figured something in that nature is going on again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A review of San Antonio police calls for service shows officers had been to the same address in February for a reported overdose. Police said they cannot release that report because it involves juveniles.<\/p>\n

A GoFundMe for Jesse\u2019s family describes him as someone who was \u201cimpossible not to love,\u201d \u201cfull of personality,\u201d and having a way of making people smile. The fundraiser also says Jesse was a two-time Junior Olympic champion with a promising future in boxing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey haven’t returned back from the hospital. We’re looking out the window waiting for them to get back, so we can support them, in every way we can,\u201d Puente said.<\/p>\n

Police said several people were in the home at the time, but not in the room where the shooting happened. Officers recovered a gun from the scene and are working to piece together what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy died after shooting himself inside his family\u2019s North Side home, and his stepfather was seriously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-443748","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\/443748","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=443748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}