Carlos Madrazo

Carlos Madrazo, a 33-year-old Hispanic man, was at a friend's apartment in San Antonio, Texas, on the night of September 8, 2022. He was giving his friend a tattoo when the evening was violently interrupted at around 11 p.m.

Four armed men barged into the apartment at the Westwood Plaza Apartments on Westward Drive. According to an arrest affidavit, the group was looking for a person who had accused one of the intruders, Darryl Lamont Love II, of stealing money, and they began searching the apartment asking for "the white boy." When Madrazo told the men to leave, they became upset. The intruders began beating Madrazo and another witness, Justin Willhight-Lewis. One of the men struck Madrazo in the face twice with a gun. Love then hit Madrazo with his own handgun before shooting him three times. The four men fled after the shooting. Madrazo was rushed to a hospital, but he died from his injuries.

A witness told police that the group of men had been terrorizing the apartment complex for over a month, having assaulted or robbed more than ten people. The investigation led police to identify four suspects. Love, 18, was the first to be arrested on September 19, 2022. The second suspect, 28-year-old Javon Antone Hardaway, was taken into custody in December 2022. The following spring, police arrested 19-year-old Darius Dwayne Wadlington on April 20, 2023, and the final suspect, 18-year-old Corey Salas, on May 1, 2023.

All four men were charged in connection with the killing. Darryl Love was indicted on charges of murder for shooting Madrazo and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for striking Willhight-Lewis with a firearm. Hardaway was charged with murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, while Wadlington and Salas were each charged with murder. In February 2025, Javon Hardaway stood trial for the aggravated assault charge. A jury found him not guilty of that specific charge. As of February 2025, the murder charges against Hardaway and his three co-defendants remained pending.