{"id":451843,"date":"2026-09-30T05:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451843\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T05:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:52:12","slug":"watch-sapd-releases-video-showing-person-of-interest-in-fatal-downtown-shooting-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451843\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: SAPD releases video showing person of interest in fatal downtown shooting investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 New video released by the San Antonio Police Department on Tuesday shows a person of interest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/31\/man-shot-killed-during-fight-over-property-at-hemisfair-park-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/31\/man-shot-killed-during-fight-over-property-at-hemisfair-park-police-say\/\">in connection with a downtown shooting<\/a> that left a man dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Officers responded to the shooting just before 5 a.m. Aug. 30 in the 600 block of Hemisfair Plaza Way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">When they arrived, police said they found Jonathan Alderete, 35, with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital and later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">In the 40-second surveillance video released Tuesday, the person of interest is seen an hour before the shooting entering and leaving the Denny\u2019s on East Commerce Street. Police said the man is around 20 to 24 years old and about 5 feet 10 inches tall. In the video, he is wearing red shorts and a black hooded sweatshirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Anyone with information on the person of interest is asked to contact SAPD\u2019s homicide unit at 210-207-7635.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect in custody<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Days after the shooting, police arrested Isean Hardeman, 23, at a South Side apartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Police said there was a physical confrontation between Hardeman and Alderete before he was shot and killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">According to his arrest affidavit, surveillance video showed Hardeman and three other people taking a basketball that belonged to Alderete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">More coverage of this story on KSAT:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 New video released by the San Antonio Police Department on Tuesday shows a person of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[294,993,82,84,83,632,95],"class_list":["post-451843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-crime","tag-downtown","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-sapd","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451843","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=451843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}