After a significant interstate law enforcement effort, fugitive Ronnie Jay Salas, 22, accused in an April murder in San Antonio's Southwest Side, has been extradited back to Bexar County to face charges, as per court documents, KENS 5 reported. Salas, detained nearly three months ago in Kansas, stands charged in the shooting death of 23-year-old Andre Montera after an argument escalated on Nogalitos Street.
Authorities, piecing together the chain of events, informed that the altercation turned fatal when Salas allegedly shot Montera, who succumbed to his injuries at a hospital, the incident, an acute expression of personal feud and violence that left another life abruptly ended landed Salas on the law enforcement radar, and the consequent manhunt spanned state lines culminating in his capture in Hoisington, Kansas, detailed in the court records obtained by KSAT. Salas was found and arrested thanks to a tip shared by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force with the Kansas Apprehension Task Force.
After the apprehension facilitated by the Hoisington Police Department and Barton County Sheriff’s Office, following the trail from an alert from the Kansas Apprehension Task Force about Salas's imminent departure from the residence he was in task force members who executed the arrest and the detailed proceedings were made public in an affidavit, which confirms Salas has now been formally extradited and will have to answer to the murder charge back in Texas, where the alleged crime originated as per the shared statement on court proceedings from KENS 5 and KSAT.
