{"id":480994,"date":"2026-10-30T03:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480994\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T03:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:02:10","slug":"san-antonio-man-found-guilty-of-killing-estranged-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480994\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio man found guilty of killing estranged wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-970562566-4-640x400.jpg\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"San Antonio man found guilty of killing estranged wife\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014\u00a0A San Antonio man accused of killing his estranged wife in 2024 was found guilty by a jury Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>James Mendoza faces up to life in prison for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsa.com\/sapd-man-arrested-after-woman-stabbed-to-death-on-south-side\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stabbing death<\/a> of Stephanie Mendoza at a South Side home. Jurors are expected to determine his punishment Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 13, 2024, officers responded to a home in the 100 block of Division Avenue for a reported family violence incident. Stephanie Mendoza\u2019s daughter discovered her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsa.com\/bexar-county-medical-examiner-releases-name-of-woman-found-stabbed-to-death-at-south-side-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mother<\/a> dead inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Stephanie Mendoza had been stabbed 32 times. James Mendoza was also found injured at the scene and received medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>During the trial, witnesses described a troubled relationship and testified that Stephanie had attempted to leave her husband but continued returning to help him.<\/p>\n<p>One friend testified that James Mendoza had grabbed Stephanie by the arm and physically pulled her on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors argued that Mendoza repeatedly tried to draw his estranged wife back into the relationship by using his medical needs, financial requests and personal belongings as leverage.<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014\u00a0A San Antonio man accused of killing his estranged wife in 2024 was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36117,161185,82,84,83,162209,161186],"class_list":["post-480994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-guilty","tag-james-mendoza","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-stabbing-death","tag-stephanie-mendoza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480994","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=480994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}