{"id":461747,"date":"2026-10-10T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461747\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:30:08","slug":"man-gets-25-years-in-fatal-road-rage-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461747\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets 25 years in fatal road rage shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A Bexar County jury found Eric Vasquez guilty of murder Friday in the 2025 shooting death of Jay Whitemountain Morales following a road rage incident.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/eric-vasquez-on-trial-for-murder-after-deadly-road-rage-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eric Vasquez on trial for murder after deadly road rage shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Around 6:10 p.m. in January 2025, police responded to calls from witnesses of a reported shooting near the corner of Spring Time Drive and Spring Hurst Drive.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, they found Morales with two gunshot wounds to the chest and one to the thigh.<\/p>\n<p>Morales was rushed to University Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/road-rage-turned-shooting-ends-with-one-hospitalized-suspect-in-custody-local-nes-near-me-crime-law-public-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Road rage turned shooting ends with one hospitalized, suspect in custody<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The jury sentenced Vasquez to 25 years in prison after the trial in the 437th District Court.<\/p>\n<p>Road rage should never end in the loss of a life,\u201d said Bexar County Criminal District Attorney Joe Gonzales. \u201cThis verdict holds the defendant accountable for a violent act that took a husband and father from his family. We hope this outcome brings some measure of justice to Morales\u2019 loved ones as they continue to navigate this devastating loss.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Vasquez followed Morales into his neighborhood after the road rage encounter in January 2025. Morales got out of his vehicle and opened the trunk, where he had a firearm, when Vasquez fired several shots, striking and killing him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A Bexar County jury found Eric Vasquez guilty of murder Friday in the 2025 shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-461747","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\/461747","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=461747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}