San Antonio's fear eased after police arrested 19-year-old Nathan Martinez, connecting him to a series of deadly shootings that shook the community for 17 months. Martinez was taken into custody on Wednesday, thanks to police investigations that conclusively tied him to the violence through ballistic evidence.
According to KENS 5, the string of shootings began on Father's Day 2022, when a family gathering was brutally interrupted by gunfire from a passing vehicle. Two people were fatally shot, with another five wounded in the fray. The scales of justice began to tip when ballistic evidence from a further unrelated shooting Gomez was reportedly involved in, was matched to detectives' findings from the devastating day.
Reckless and brazen, the suspect managed to post bail after an arrest for drugs and a machine gun during a traffic stop. He found himself back on the streets under the weighty cloud of probation, only to allegedly strike again. This time the violence unfolded on the 2800 block of Mosscircle Drive, claiming the life of a 17-year-old Julian Junior Robledo two days following the assault that also targeted his mother, as per KSAT. The teen and his mom were shot at while innocently drinking coffee under their carport.
As investigators delved deeper, a stark pattern emerged, revealing chilling brags on Martinez's social media accounts about "taking down a rival gang member," Sergeant Washington Moscoso told Fox San Antonio. Despite the evidence staring them in the face, the authorities took painstaking work to inexorably link back to the suspect who wreaked havoc on the peaceful family barbecue one fateful June day.
