Adrian Aguilar

A man is found shot to death in a car in San Pedro Creek
Adrian Salazar Aguilar was a 21-year-old male detention guard with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in San Antonio, Texas. He was a husband to his wife, Evelyn, and the father of a young son, Adrian Jason Aguilar.

On the night of Saturday, June 29, 1985, Deputy Aguilar was on duty and returning to the Bexar County Jail. Dressed in his uniform and driving his personal car, he had just finished an assignment guarding a hospitalized prisoner at University Hospital. As he was taking the Santa Rosa Street exit off Interstate 10, an assailant in a passing vehicle shot him from the passenger side.

San Antonio police officers were dispatched to the intersection of West Martin Street and North Santa Rosa Street for a report of a car accident. When they arrived, they found Deputy Aguilar’s vehicle in the San Pedro Creek. He was inside, unconscious in the driver's seat, bleeding from the mouth and having trouble breathing.

Paramedics rushed Deputy Aguilar to Brook Army Medical Center, where he died several hours later on June 30, 1985. An autopsy later confirmed that he had died from a single gunshot wound to the back. His death was officially ruled a homicide.

The investigation began immediately, but there were no known witnesses to the shooting. For more than three decades, the person who killed Deputy Aguilar has not been identified. Investigators have been unable to determine if the shooting was connected to his work assignment that night or was a random act of violence. As of January 2017, the San Antonio Police Department's Cold Case Squad was still actively investigating the crime.

The case remains open and unsolved. Anyone with information is asked to contact the SAPD Cold Case Squad at 210-207-7635 or the Bexar County Sheriff's Office at (210) 335-6000.