{"id":487152,"date":"2026-02-24T06:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487152\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:56:07","slug":"derek-brown-honored-with-basketball-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487152\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Brown honored with basketball memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO – We’re hearing from the family of a man who was killed outside a Northside bar last week for the first time.<\/p>\n

27-year-old Derek Brown’s mother said her son was a light in the dark.<\/p>\n

We’re hearing from the family of a man who was killed outside a Northside bar last week for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

His friends and family are celebrating his life the best way they know how; even if it is sooner than they hoped.<\/p>\n

“I woke up to a phone call at 4:30 in the morning that my son got shot,” Derek’s mother, Violeta Mitchell said. “When they said that, I said: ‘no, it can’t be.'”<\/p>\n

Derek, who’s better known as Dee, was at the Myst Hookah and Ultra Lounge <\/a>last week when gunfire rung out.<\/p>\n

He and 50-year-old Kyung Lee were shot and killed while outside of the lounge. Both died at the scene and neither of them were involved with the alleged shooters at all.<\/p>\n

“I remember that I couldn’t speak no language that anybody could understand,” Violeta said. “I know words were coming out of my mouth, but it was not Spanish, and it was not English.”<\/p>\n

34-year-old Joseph Anthony Amador and 35-year-old Lauren Tayler Machado-Juarez were arrested and charged <\/a>with capital murder on Friday.<\/p>\n

Derek’s family said, while they’re heartbroken, those arrests have brought them comfort as they hold on to his memory.<\/p>\n

“He was not any type of person that lived a life where he was dodging bullets,” his stepfather Jeremy, said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t ever remember seeing Derek angry,” Violeta said. “He loved music. He loved basketball. Most of all, he loved God.”<\/p>\n

His family honored him with a celebration he’d love Monday night, a memorial basketball game, before they say their final goodbyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – We’re hearing from the family of a man who was killed outside a Northside bar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-487152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}