Jorge Luis Duran, 36, was shot multiple times during a family altercation at the Live Oak home where he and his fiancée, Erica Renee Rendon, were moving in early 2022. Tensions had arisen over damaged new wood flooring and a son not helping with packing. On the evening of January 1, 2022, a fight broke out between Duran and one of Rendon’s sons; Rendon and her father tried to separate them.

Seventeen-year-old Austin James Markowski, who was in the shower, retrieved Rendon’s Glock after hearing a loud noise and entered the bedroom. Markowski later told police he saw Duran push his mother and pull out a red knife (blade not extended) and then shot Duran four times. Rendon told investigators she did not see a knife. Duran was taken to Brooke Army Medical Center and pronounced brain dead; the Bexar County Medical Examiner pronounced him deceased on January 6, 2022. Live Oak police arrested Markowski and charged him with murder; he told authorities he acted to defend his mother.

Does anyone have information about the events that night or knew the family that could help clarify what happened?