A 22-year-old woman was arrested and hit with a capital murder charge in the wake of a fatal North Side apartment shooting earlier this year. Luz Rodriguez Pizano was booked into the Bexar County Jail, accused of orchestrating the murder of Marcel Greenwood, 33, through a deal gone wrong on Snapchat, as per Express News.
Following a deadly shooting back in March, it was via Snapchat that San Antonio Police connected the dots leading to Pizano's arrest. In an unraveling of events, officers dispatched to Greenwood's apartment for a wellness check found him dead, as reported by Express News. Pizano had claimed she was unaware of the murder. She was seated in a car while two unknown men entered Greenwood's apartment and fatally shot him.
The investigation took a pivotal turn when police retrieved a cellphone at the crime scene belonging to Greenwood, which contained evidence of communication with Pizano. They used the Cash App to settle a $1,000 transaction, supposedly for marijuana. Greenwood and Pizano allegedly used their phones for texts, phone calls, and FaceTime interactions after swapping numbers via Snapchat, according to KENS 5 News.
Pizano met with police voluntarily, initially denying her presence the day Greenwood was killed. But when "confronted with the evidence," she admitted to posting images to set up men for drug purchases, stating she was not profiting from the deals, as reported by KENS 5. Her explanation to the officers was that, despite being at the apartment complex, she was outside the crime scene, and she "did not know anyone had been hurt," adding she would have contacted police if she had heard the gunshots.
It turns out Pizano also allegedly used Snapchat on the same day to lure another victim into a robbery where the unsuspecting man was robbed at gunpoint by two associates of hers. While Pizano remains in jail, her bond sits at a steep $600,000. Meanwhile, Greenwood's bereaved family has been informed by police that more arrests may be on the horizon, finding some solace in the progress of the investigation as they mourn their "independent and caring" son, as described by Greenwood’s parents, Keiron and Dorothy Greenwood, in a statement obtained by KENS 5.
