Two brothers who were shot Tuesday night in a far West Side neighborhood have died, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Wednesday.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the brothers as Maliki Perales, 11, and Drayven Quiroz, 20.
Perales died from a gunshot wound to the head and torso, the medical examiner’s office said. His death was ruled a homicide.
Quiroz’s cause and manner of death are still pending.
Salazar identified the suspect as Daniel Antonio Perez, 40.
Perez is facing the following charges, according to jail records:
- Capital murder of a person between 10-15 years old
- Aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury (second-degree felony)
- Four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (second-degree felony)
Records show Perez’s combined bond on all six charges is $2.3 million.
Salazar said Perez will also face a second capital murder charge.
Watch the entire Wednesday morning news conference below:
Deputies responded to the shooting around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 9800 block of Acadian Drive, near Kriewald Road.
During a news conference shortly after the shooting, Salazar said an 11-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man were backing the family car into their driveway when Perez crossed the street from his home and shot at the vehicle multiple times.
Salazar said Perez shot at other young family members near the door as well.
“Thankfully, (Perez) missed them,” Salazar said.
The boys’ father, Andrew Perales, said he had asked Quiroz to back the car in and believed his younger brother must have followed him out.
He said Quiroz called them and said, “This guy’s just looking at us messed up.”
Andrew Perales said his wife looked at the camera while he was ordering food.
“I hear pops. My wife starts screaming. I got my gun, came down,” he said in an interview at his front door. “My son was right here. I tripped over him. The guy was across the street reloading, started to shoot again.”
Andrew Perales scrubbed through home security video of the shooting without sound to show reporters but declined to share a copy.
The video shows a man coming from across the street to the driver side window of a car in the driveway and appearing to shoot into it. He then heads toward the front door of the home where Andrew Perales said he found his younger son.
The man then goes away from the house before circling back to the vehicle in the driveway, appearing to aim the gun toward the house at least once as he does. After appearing to fire again into the driver’s side of the car, the shooter leaves.
Two women can be seen running toward the shooter from the other side of the street in an apparent attempt to stop him. Perales can also be seen coming out to the driveway.
How deputies caught Perez
According to Salazar, Perez ran about a quarter mile away from the victims’ home following the shooting.
Before he was taken into custody, the sheriff said Perez called 911.
“In the meantime, (Perez) was actually calling 911 and speaking to dispatch personnel, letting them know what had happened and that he had shot some folks,” Salazar said.
Some of Perez’s relatives have since told investigators Perez went “through mental health crises before,” Salazar said Wednesday.
“Unbeknownst to (the victims’ family), they had what I would categorize as a ticking time bomb right across the street from them,” Salazar said. “And really had no warning whatsoever — is my understanding.”
The gun allegedly used in the shooting was found “several houses away from where (Perez) was discovered,” according to Salazar.
“The only reason we found him is because we were able to utilize his cellphone signal to ping where he was,” Salazar said. “It’s not like he confessed and told us and laid down. Deputies still had to confront him and give him orders at gunpoint to surrender himself.”
“While, you know, clearly there’s some sort of a mental health crisis going on. In my mind, though, he still had the presence of mind and the culpable mental state to go conceal the weapon somewhere and then go conceal himself somewhere else,” Salazar said.
Court records show Perez’s next court appearance is tentatively set for Nov. 3.
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