On February 10, 2024, at about 12:54 a.m., Kingsville police found 20-year-old Nicholas C. Guerrero lying in the roadway in the 800 block of Vela Street, deceased from a gunshot wound to the shoulder and a stab wound to the chest. Authorities say 21-year-old Joshua Salge contacted police from Robstown and confessed to the killing; Robstown officers arrested him and brought him to Kingsville for questioning. During the interrogation Salge allegedly struck a Kingsville officer. He was charged with murder, assault on a public servant, and tampering with physical evidence and booked into the Kleberg County Jail on bond set at $530,000.

Nicholas Guerrero, born December 23, 2003, in Kingsville, is remembered by family as devoted and selfless. He is survived by his spouse Azalia Rueda and their two children, Nicholas Jude Guerrero and Nino Sabastian Guerrero. Funeral services were held February 16, 2024, at St. Martin’s Catholic Church with burial at Santa Gertrudis Memorial Cemetery.

If anyone has information about what happened that night, please share what is known.