Charles Ruso Martinez, 28, was shot and killed during an early morning altercation on May 20, 2023, on San Antonio’s West Side. The shooting happened around 4 a.m. in the 4300 block of Eldridge Avenue after Martinez got into a heated argument with his girlfriend about their breakup and tried to open the driver’s side door of a pickup truck where she and 23-year-old Mathew Isaac Ortiz were seated.

Ortiz, in the passenger seat, shot Martinez, saying he believed Martinez was armed and had assaulted the woman. A CPS Energy worker found Martinez lying in the street and called authorities. Ortiz initially claimed self-defense; investigators later arrested him about a month after the shooting and charged him with murder.

What details about the confrontation or the immediate aftermath might help clarify what happened that night?