SUPER 8 MOTEL

UNIVERSAL CITY – The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a 16-year-old boy who was killed at a Universal City motel early Tuesday morning. Steven Vasquez Flores was fatally shot inside a motel room around 4:30 a.m. at the Super 8 in the 200 block of Palisades Drive, not far from Loop 1604. The Medical Examiner’s office said Flores died of a gunshot wound to the chest, and his manner of death was a homicide. Authorities said Tuesday that they have four people in custody, two of them minors who are being questioned. A motive is not currently known.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Texas – Police in Universal City are investigating after a 17-year-old boy was fatally shot at a motel early Tuesday morning. Officers were called around 4:30 a.m. to a Super 8 motel in the 200 block of Palisades Drive, not far from Loop 1604 after receiving word of someone shot inside a motel room. Authorities say they have four people in custody, two of them minors who are being questioned. The name of the boy killed has not been released. The Schertz Police Department, the Live Oak Police Department and Universal City police all answered the call.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Texas – A man with active felony warrants was arrested Wednesday at a motel in Universal City as part of a joint operation where an explosive device was found, the Bexar County Fire Marshal’s office said. Officers with the Universal City Police Department, among other agencies, arrested Joshua Faleide at a Super 8 motel in the 200 block of Palisades Drive. According to John Ortega, chief investigator with the Bexar County Fire Marshal’s office, the man was arrested in connection with two active felony warrants: possession of an explosive weapon, and possession of components of an explosive weapon, both third-degree felonies. Authorities searched this vehicle believed to belong to the suspect during an investigation into an explosive device at a motel in Universal City. (Misael Gomez) (KSAT)Faleide, who is in his 40s, is a known offender to both the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and Universal City Police, Ortega said.