{"id":167060,"date":"2025-08-22T17:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167060\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:50:12","slug":"police-suspect-wanted-in-connection-to-murder-of-san-antonio-teen-shot-himself-in-laredo-condition-currently-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167060\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Suspect wanted in connection to murder of San Antonio teen shot himself in Laredo; condition currently unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"

20-year-old Caesar Tijerina is wanted for capital murder in connection to the murder of 14-year-old Simon Cuevas.<\/p>\n

SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Laredo police have confirmed that a 20-year-old suspect wanted in connection to the murder of a San Antonio teen shot himself in Laredo Thursday.<\/p>\n

14-year-old Simon Cuevas III was walking home from Brewer Academy in the area of South Elmendorf and Merida on April 16.<\/a> According to records, surveillance footage revealed to investigators that a group of five students walking home from Brewer Academy got into an altercation and teamed up on a Cuevas while following him as he left school. He was shot and killed by multiple suspects.<\/p>\n

Four months later, 18-year-old Fernando Flores was arrested. He is believed to have pulled the trigger, according to an arrest affidavit; he’s now facing a charge of capital murder.<\/p>\n

There were two more suspects wanted in connection to the killing: one teenager who will not be named and 20-year-old Caesar Tijerina.<\/p>\n

Joe Baeza with Laredo PD has confirmed to KENS 5 that Tijerina shot himself in Laredo Friday. He has been taken to a San Antonio hospital where his condition is currently unclear.<\/p>\n

KENS 5 is working to confirm more information about this case as of Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20-year-old Caesar Tijerina is wanted for capital murder in connection to the murder of 14-year-old Simon Cuevas. SAN…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-167060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115073687625725163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}