Martin Jaquez-Martinez

Martin Jaquez-Martinez, a 20-year-old Hispanic man, was found dead on the morning of Saturday, August 5, 2023. A call brought deputies from the Bexar County Sheriff's Office to the Woodlake Trails community in northeast San Antonio, where they discovered his body lying in the grass between two mobile homes on Golf Vista Boulevard. He had suffered a single, fatal gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators learned that neighbors had heard what sounded like one gunshot around 11:30 p.m. the previous night, Friday, August 4. Authorities believed Jaquez-Martinez was killed sometime between then and 6 a.m. Saturday. At the scene, officers noted that the victim's vehicle, a white 2022 Toyota Tacoma, was missing. The truck was later located abandoned at a nearby school.

The recovery of the truck provided investigators with their first major lead. Surveillance footage from the school showed an individual leaving the vehicle before departing the area. When crime scene technicians processed the Tacoma, they found fingerprints that matched those of Nicholas Devion Sommers, a 20-year-old who lived in the same mobile home community where Jaquez-Martinez was found. Deputies executed a search warrant at Sommers' residence and uncovered significant evidence, including a .45 caliber handgun, a key to the victim's truck, and a pill bottle connected to a member of the victim's family.

Ballistic analysis later confirmed that the handgun found in Sommers' home was the weapon used to kill Martin Jaquez-Martinez. Nicholas Devion Sommers, who had no prior criminal history, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, tampering with evidence, and unauthorized use of a vehicle. The case against him proceeded to trial, but on the second day of the proceedings, Judge Frank Castro declared a mistrial. The case is now pending further legal action.