A 78-year-old man was fatally stabbed Tuesday morning in a North Side home, prompting a murder investigation, according to San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe victim lived here by himself,\u201d McManus said. Authorities have not confirmed the victim\u2019s identity publicly, pending the medical examiner\u2019s assessment.<\/p>\n
Police responded to the home shortly before 11 a.m. after a 911 call from the victim\u2019s housekeeper, who reported that a family member had assaulted her employer and fled the scene. She told dispatchers there was blood around the victim and that she was unable to stop the bleeding.<\/p>\n
Officers arrived to find the victim in the garage with multiple stab wounds. He was treated by EMS and loaded into an ambulance, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The suspect, described only as a man in his 40s with a familial connection to the victim, fled the scene, traveling west on I-10, and was later detained in Kimble County, according to SAPD.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was an altercation or argument of some sort. The suspect attacked the victim, and he is now deceased. The suspect is now in custody,\u201d McManus said during a news briefing.<\/p>\n
McManus said the suspect is not from Texas. No motive has been released. Police said there is no ongoing threat to the community. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n
Although the victim has not been identified by authorities, Bexar County tax records indicate the property belongs to Ron Acosta, founder of the San Antonio-based Las Palapas restaurant chain. His full name is Edward R. Acosta, and the home is registered under that name.<\/p>\n
Acosta founded Las Palapas in 1981 on Blanco Road near Churchill High School. Known for its tacos and Tex-Mex offerings, the restaurant expanded to multiple locations across San Antonio and to cities along the Interstate 35 corridor.<\/p>\n
The Acosta family owned the chain of restaurants until Wayne Detmar, a franchise owner, bought majority interest in 2020. Las Palapas has locations in New Braunfels, Austin, Boerne, College Station and Keller in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story.<\/p>\n
Reporter Ken Rodriguez contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 78-year-old man was fatally stabbed Tuesday morning in a North Side home, prompting a murder investigation, according…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,26308,26309,26310,7202,7203,7725,358,7453,3187,7815,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,11887],"class_list":{"0":"post-31011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-las-palapas","10":"tag-murder-investigation","11":"tag-ron-acosta","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sapd","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-top-story","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-typedaily","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-wc-less-than-500"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114780404565791923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011","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=31011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}