Man, woman killed in apparent murder-suicide on NE Side identified

Claudia Yolanda Garcia, 48, and Manuel Jose Gonzalez, 23, died from shooting

SAN ANTONIOUpdate (April 29, 2020):

Officials have identified a 48-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man who died in an apparent murder-suicide on a San Antonio road.

Claudia Yolanda Garcia, 48, and Manuel Jose Gonzalez, 23, died Monday after police found them on Perrin Beitel near Sun Gate, according to the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office,

Garcia, who was found lying outside a vehicle parked on the road, was transported to a hospital where she later died.

Gonzalez was found dead in the back seat of the vehicle, police said.

Original (April 27, 2020):

A man and a woman in their 40s were killed in an apparent murder-suicide Monday night on the Northeast Side, San Antonio police Chief William McManus said.

Police responded to a call for a shooting around 7 p.m. on Perrin Beitel near Sun Gate.

When officers arrived, they found a man dead in the back seat of a vehicle and a woman laying outside the vehicle, McManus said. She was taken to a hospital, where she died.

McManus said it appears the man shot the woman and then turned the gun on himself.

Police: Woman fatally shot children, ages 3 and 5, and mother at San Antonio apartment

This is the second murder-suicide in San Antonio on Monday.

Earlier Monday, a woman shot and killed her two young children and her mother before fatally shooting herself at an apartment complex in the 17600 block of Henderson Pass, McManus said.


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