Julio Cesar Martinez Padron, 59, was shot after leaving a West Side San Antonio bar on the night of Sunday, October 19, 2025. Officers found him unresponsive with gunshot wounds to the head in his SUV outside 434 Historic Old Highway 90 around 11 p.m.; he was taken to University Hospital and died the next day, Monday, October 20, 2025.

Police say the shooting followed a dispute inside the bar. Detectives say another patron, identified as 43-year-old Ramiro Espinoza Jr., walked to his vehicle, retrieved a handgun, approached Martinez Padron’s SUV, said I got you now, and fired multiple rounds. Investigators relied on witness accounts, surveillance video that captured the confrontation and the suspect leaving, and automated license plate reader data. A witness later picked Espinoza out of a lineup; he was arrested two days after the shooting and booked into the Bexar County jail on $250,000 bond while investigators sought a fuller motive.

Did anyone see or record the argument inside the bar or the moments leading up to the parking lot confrontation?