Police: Suspect Charged with Capital Murder in String of Shootings

SAN ANTONIO, TX — A San Antonio man has been charged with capital murder after he killed a woman he believed played a role in his sister’s overdose.

According to KSAT, 30-year-old Rogelio Sanchez and a second individual approached the victim, 37-year-old Christina Delacruz on July 5. According to police Delacruz and two male victims were approached by the suspects.

Sanchez and his accomplice then allegedly “intimidated the three victims” and “demanded,” they get into their white four-door vehicle.”

The suspects then “questioned the victims regarding the overdose of a woman.” The woman was later identified as Sanchez’s sister who died on June 30. Her family believed there was foul play in her death.

The duo then drove the three victims to a secluded area and demanded one of the male victims to exit the car. According to the second male victim, he and Delacruz stayed inside the vehicle. He later told police he heard a gunshot and the suspects returned without the first male victim.

The suspects then drove Delacruz and the remaining male victim to a second secluded area. They were then forced to lie on the grass.

Delacruz was then fatally shot in the back of the head. The two suspects then attempted to kill the second male victim, but there was “some sort of malfunction” with the gun.

The remaining victim was able to flee the scene and ran screaming to a residential neighborhood around 1:00 a.m. According to the affidavit he “had scratches throughout his body from running through heavy brush.”

He contacted authorities and told officers he witnessed his friend get executed. He confirmed to police Sanchez was the driver of the car and that he was armed with a gun throughout the night. 

The second suspect was identified as the shooter that killed Delacruz. He was not named in the arrest affidavit released for Sanchez.

Police canvassed the first area where the victims were taken but could not locate the first male victim that was removed from the car. He was not identified in the affidavit, but authorities confirmed he was the same individual that filed a police report several days earlier claiming to have been abducted and assaulted by two men that match the description in this case.