{"id":84471,"date":"2025-12-11T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84471\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:21:07","slug":"corpus-christi-man-enters-not-guilty-plea-related-to-ayers-market-shooting-in-aug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84471\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi man enters not guilty plea related to Ayers Market shooting in Aug."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A Corpus Christi man accused of shooting two people during an August altercation outside of the Ayers Market has pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges.<\/p>\n<p>Ernesto Mondragon, 33, entered a plea of not guilty Thursday to nine counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His attorney, Kyle Hoelscher, confirmed the plea following Mondragon\u2019s arraignment.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from an Aug. 20 shooting that occurred around 6:20 p.m., when officers responded to reports of gunfire at the Ayers Market. Senior Officer Antonio Contreras said two people were shot and taken to a local hospital with \u00a0non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe an altercation of some kind led to the shooting, though officials have not determined what triggered the confrontation or who initiated it.<\/p>\n<p>A child was present during the incident but was evaluated as a precaution and was not injured, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/corpus-christi-man-enters-not-guilty-plea-ayers-market-shooting-aug\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A Corpus Christi man accused of shooting two people during an August altercation outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-84471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84471","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=84471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}