Esmeralda Salas, 24, was shot and killed in a parking lot outside the Pik-Nik convenience store near the 900 block of Guadalupe Street in San Antonio on October 24, 2022. Police say she was confronted by a group who accused her of stealing shoes after a burglary; the confrontation escalated and, within about 15 seconds, 20-year-old Jeremiah Villareal produced a gun and shot Salas multiple times. She was taken toward the hospital but died en route. Witnesses identified Villareal and surveillance footage released by police helped with that identification.

Villareal was arrested and charged with murder; bond was set at $250,000 and he was held in jail awaiting trial with an initial court hearing scheduled later that month. The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Salas’s identity and cause of death. Very little else about the group’s actions before the shooting or about possible motives has been reported.

Did anyone in the area know Esmeralda or see what happened at the Pik-Nik that night?