A San Antonio father who received deferred adjudication after his infant daughter was fatally wounded during a 2023 apartment dispute has been ordered into a state-sanctioned intermediate sanction facility, according to recent Bexar County court records. A judge assigned 24-year-old Alejandro Dominic Martinez to the in-custody program during a hearing held earlier this month, and he will remain there under heightened supervision while the court decides what to do next.
Court filings reviewed by KSAT show that Martinez violated the terms of his eight-year deferred adjudication sentence and was transferred to an Intermediate Sanction Facility, or ISF. The paperwork references the aggravated-assault-with-a-deadly-weapon charge tied to the April 2023 shooting that killed his 8-month-old daughter and notes that a judge approved the ISF placement at a hearing earlier this month. KSAT reported that the records do not spell out exactly how Martinez violated his probation.
April 2023 shooting
Police reports and court documents state that the shooting unfolded on April 12, 2023, at the Merida Apartments on the Northeast Side, during an argument between Martinez and the child’s mother, Ruby Mora. A gun went off and the bullet struck both Mora and the baby she was holding. The infant, identified in public records as Rosalinda, later died at a hospital. Univision San Antonio reviewed case documents and reported that both parents were initially charged.
What an ISF and deferred adjudication mean in Texas
Intermediate Sanction Facilities are secure, short-term programs that Texas judges can use to tighten control and provide treatment for people on probation who break the rules of their supervision, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The agency describes ISF placements as an option instead of fully revoking probation, with different tracks focused on monitoring and treatment that typically last several weeks.
Deferred adjudication in Texas is a form of community supervision in which the court puts off entering a final conviction while the defendant follows court-ordered conditions. If those conditions are not met, the court can later adjudicate guilt and impose a sentence, as outlined in the state’s criminal procedure code available here.
Legal fallout and what comes next
Court records cited by KSAT indicate the details of Martinez’s probation violation remain unknown, leaving open whether prosecutors will now ask the judge to formally adjudicate his case and hand down a prison term. One week after Martinez was sentenced in November 2025, the aggravated-assault charge against the child’s mother, Ruby Mora, was dismissed, according to the court documents referenced in KSAT’s reporting.
For now, Martinez is under supervision inside the ISF while the court considers any additional motions related to his supervision status. The case illustrates how deferred adjudication can keep serious child-injury cases in legal limbo for years while judges, attorneys and probation officers sort through violations and sanctions. Records show the matter remains active in Bexar County as the ISF placement and any future filings work their way through the system.
