{"id":481306,"date":"2026-10-30T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481306\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:40:33","slug":"20-year-old-suspect-identified-in-south-side-shooting-that-left-man-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481306\/","title":{"rendered":"20-year-old suspect identified in South Side shooting that left man in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Police have identified a 20-year-old man arrested in connection with a suspected road rage shooting that left another man critically injured Tuesday evening in a busy shopping center parking lot on the South Side.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio Police identified the suspect as Luke Perez, 20, who was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Perez was arrested following the shooting around 5 p.m. near Southwest Military Drive and South Zarzamora Street.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/victim-hospitalized-in-critical-condition-in-reported-south-side-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Victim hospitalized in critical condition in reported South Side shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Perez and the victim had gotten out of their vehicles when Perez allegedly pulled out a gun and opened fire, striking the victim in the torso. Gunfire also struck the victim&#8217;s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Police initially described the shooting as a possible road rage incident involving three vehicles. Police said one vehicle had been crashing into another before the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>A witness shared video from the scene showing the victim lying on the ground after the shooting. Alicia Alvarado, who was inside Cash of America across the street, said a woman ran into the business screaming for help.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado said the wounded man was holding his chest and pleading for help as the woman tried to stop the bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>He was holding his chest and he saying help me I just got shot I don&#8217;t wanna die I don&#8217;t wanna die,&#8221; Alvarado said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the victim&#8217;s family later arrived at the scene, making an already emotional situation even more difficult to witness.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado also said the violence has left some customers afraid to return to the shopping center.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Perez following the shooting. Investigators have not released additional details about what led to the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Perez is being held in the Bexar County Jail on $150,000 bond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Police have identified a 20-year-old man arrested in connection with a suspected road rage shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-481306","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\/481306","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=481306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}