Ricardo Cervera Jr., 53, was shot and killed on the morning of July 1, 2025, on the second-floor landing outside a room at the Flex Studios motel on Northwest Loop 410 near Culebra Road in San Antonio. Officers arrived just before 10 a.m. and found him with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso; emergency personnel’s life-saving efforts failed and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Funeral records list his death as July 1, 2025 in San Antonio at age 53.

Witnesses described arguing and shuffling on the breezeway, followed by a woman’s cries for help and then a burst of gunfire. Detectives located the victim’s vehicle and another possible suspect vehicle at a nearby Rita Avenue home, set a perimeter and briefly detained several people before releasing them as the investigation narrowed to one suspect. Police identified the suspected shooter as the victim’s nephew, Richard Anthony Cervera, 25; he was detained less than 15 minutes after the shooting on Alamo Downs Parkway with blood on his clothing, arrested on a murder charge and booked into the Bexar County jail with bail reported at $200,000.

The killing drew extra attention because it occurred the same day another, unrelated slaying in the city also involved a nephew charged with killing his uncle. If anyone witnessed the incident at the motel or has information about the events that led to the shooting, please come forward.