{"id":479823,"date":"2026-10-29T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479823\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T00:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:08:17","slug":"ronnie-salas-sentenced-to-70-years-for-2025-murder-of-andre-montera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479823\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Salas sentenced to 70 years for 2025 murder of Andre Montera"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A jury sentenced Ronnie Salas to 70 years in prison for the 2025 fatal shooting of Andre Montera, the Bexar County District Attorney\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n

Andre Montera, 24, was found on Apr. 23 off Nogalitos Street near Gladstone Street with gunshot wounds. Despite being rushed to the hospital, he succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n

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The Bexar County District Attorney\u2019s Office said Salas targeted and ambushed Montera over a suspected romantic involvement. <\/p>\n

Salas believed his girlfriend was having an affair with her co-worker, Montera.<\/p>\n

According to an arrest report, a witness told police that Montera was picking up a woman to take her to work when the suspect, Ronnie Jay Salas, 22, walked up to Montera and a struggle ensued. At some point, Salas shot Montera and took off.<\/p>\n

The witness positively identified Salas in a single-photo lineup conducted by the San Antonio Police Department.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Marshals tracked Salas to Hoisington, Kansas, about 120 miles from Wichita, in May 2025 after receiving a tip that he was staying there. He was arrested without incident and extradited to San Antonio in August 2025 to face a murder charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A jury sentenced Ronnie Salas to 70 years in prison for the 2025 fatal shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-479823","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\/479823","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=479823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}