Luis Mario Garcia

Luis Mario Garcia, a 19-year-old Hispanic male, was killed in a shooting on December 13, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas. Both he and the man later convicted of his murder were 19 years old at the time of the incident.

The shooting occurred just before 5 p.m. during what police described as a rolling shootout between two vehicles on the city’s Northeast Side. When San Antonio police officers arrived in the 100 block of Roundtree Lane, near Interstate 35 and Randolph Boulevard, they found Garcia lying in the street. His car had crashed through a wall, and he had sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Garcia was taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

At the scene, investigators recovered shell casings from two different firearms, indicating a gunfight had taken place. A gun was also found inside Garcia’s car. Detectives reviewed surveillance footage from a nearby location that showed a white SUV arriving moments before the shooting. The video captured Garcia’s car driving past the SUV, which then turned around and began to follow him. According to an affidavit, messages on Garcia’s phone showed he had told someone to “come over to him” at the same time the SUV appeared. The two vehicles drove out of the camera's view, and seconds later, audio captured the sound of gunshots, a car engine revving, a crash, and more gunfire.

Minutes after police responded to the shooting on Roundtree Lane, another call came in for a shooting about five miles away on Broadway. There, officers found Fernando Gonzalez Canedo with gunshot wounds to his stomach and face. Canedo claimed he was shot while being robbed on his way to the gym. However, investigators believed he had staged the robbery and that his injuries were from the shootout with Garcia.

Using cell phone data, social media records, DNA evidence, and surveillance footage that showed the white SUV fleeing the scene, police identified Canedo as a suspect. He was arrested in January 2023 and charged with murder. At the time, police said they were searching for a second suspect. In September 2025, Fernando Gonzalez Canedo was convicted for the murder of Luis Mario Garcia. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.