On the early morning of February 18, 2026, a shooting at Myst Hookah + Ultra Lounge on San Antonio’s Northwest side left two men dead. Fifty-year-old Kyung Lee, an Asian male, was among the victims; the other was 27-year-old Derek Dashaun Brown. An altercation inside the lounge reportedly led to a man and a woman being ejected, and shortly after about 1:24 a.m. a car linked to those ejected drove past the lounge’s outdoor patio. Witnesses reported hearing as many as 20 gunshots; police found both men deceased when they arrived.

San Antonio police opened a capital murder investigation and within two days arrested 34-year-old Joseph Anthony Amador and 35-year-old Lauren Tayler Machado-Juarez, charging both with capital murder of multiple people. The arrest affidavit says surveillance video showed Amador and Machado-Juarez leaving the lounge, getting into a gold Ford Fusion, switching seats, and Amador firing multiple shots from the passenger side before the vehicle fled. A traffic stop later led to their detention, and both had active warrants for unrelated charges.

If anyone was at Myst Hookah + Ultra Lounge that night or has additional information about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.