On April 6, 2024, at about 1:00 a.m., deputies responded to a shooting in the 2000 block of South Loop 1604 East in San Antonio. Officers found 18-year-old Ricky De Los Santos with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital and later pronounced dead. While critically injured he gave a dying declaration identifying his assailant as Daniel Hernandez, described as his lifelong best friend.

Investigators say Hernandez went to De Los Santos’s home allegedly to buy tennis shoes; an argument followed and Hernandez produced a Draco AK-47-style firearm and shot De Los Santos multiple times, then fled. Authorities arrested 18-year-old Daniel Hernandez the same day and charged him with first-degree murder. Deputies did not find any weapon on the victim and the murder weapon was not immediately recovered, prompting searches where Hernandez was believed to have discarded it.

On April 12, 2024, 17-year-old Diego Salazar was arrested and accused of facilitating Hernandez’s transportation to De Los Santos’s residence; he was charged with murder and booked into Bexar County Jail with bond set at $150,000. The community has been mourning Ricky’s death and watching the legal case unfold. Does anyone have information about the incident, the people involved, or saw activity in that neighborhood on April 6?