{"id":482951,"date":"2026-11-01T05:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482951\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T05:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T05:18:11","slug":"family-of-16-year-old-shot-on-east-side-seeking-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482951\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of 16-year-old shot on East Side seeking answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Garcia can be seen above enjoying time with his father, Louis Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was such a pure, loving and beautiful soul,\u201d said Louis Garcia, Nate Garcia\u2019s father.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, the 16-year-old was shot on Bayhead Drive while at his mom\u2019s house. His father, who lives elsewhere, rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it right as soon as I walked up to the yellow tape. I just felt it,\u201d said Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Nate was shot in the upper body around 10 p.m. Friday and died shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>He left behind his family and the memories they made together, like when they took a helicopter flight over San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just the way that he was seen, the way that his face lit up,\u201d said Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>But his death also left his family with questions. His shooter is still at large, and neighbors are confused as to why the 16-year-old was killed on their otherwise quiet street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy son, my baby boy. Why? I want answers. I want it, and I\u2019m gonna get it,\u201d said Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>We are working with SAPD to get answers. If you would like to donate to the family, you can do so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/nathaniel-jai-garcia-funeral-fund?attribution_id=sl:291a9e10-eeb9-40d5-a03c-45868d78d7f6&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1793483966&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp30-treatment-3&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nate Garcia can be seen above enjoying time with his father, Louis Garcia. \u201cHe was such a pure,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-482951","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\/482951","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=482951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}