Suspect charged with manslaughter in shooting death of 17-year-old girl

A suspect accused of shooting a teenage girl in the back Monday evening on the North Side was identified Thursday.

Eleazar Jacob Flores, 20, is charged with manslaughter in the death of 17-year-old Madeline May Pendon, San Antonio police said. He is also charged with possession of a controlled substance.

On Monday, Pendon was sitting in the front passenger side of an SUV when she screamed that she was shot at about 7:40 p.m. in the 8100 block of Broadway.

Flores and one other person who was not identified were in the vehicle with Pendon. The two told police that they heard gunfire and that they pulled over to the back of a business at the intersection of Ridgecrest Drive and Broadway, police said.

Pendon was found on her abdomen when officers arrived. She was taken to University Hospital where she died an hour later, investigators said.

The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office said she died from a gunshot wound to the torso. Her death was ruled a homicide.

Although Flores and the other person called 911, police said they initially were not cooperative with investigators.

Police said there was no evidence that a shot had been fired from outside the SUV.

Officials said no additional details, such as what led to the shooting, were to be released Thursday because the case is still under investigation.