{"id":79224,"date":"2025-07-20T23:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79224\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T23:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:43:12","slug":"one-arrested-one-on-the-run-in-connection-to-deadly-shooting-near-texas-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79224\/","title":{"rendered":"One arrested, one on the run in connection to deadly shooting near Texas State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN MARCOS, Texas &#8211; Police are searching for a suspect in connection to a brawl turned shooting that left two people dead.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the San Marcos Police Department announced the arrest of 19-year-old Jermiah Jayden Tobias, charged with two counts of Capital Murder, as well as the search for 19-year-old Avery Saul Bowman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/instagram\/2-dead-after-shooting-in-san-marcos-several-people-detained#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/instagram\/2-dead-after-shooting-in-san-marcos-several-people-detained#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2 dead after shooting in San Marcos, one person arrested<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers were originally called to the scene around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, at The Square in downtown San Marcos.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, authorities determined that two males, identified as  24-year-old Anthony Barrera and 20-year-old Alek Pacheco had been shot in the head. A third victim had been grazed by gunfire, but was treated and released.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say that Barrera had been dating a married woman, and that woman&#8217;s husband had confronted him at the bar.<\/p>\n<p>The fight carried on onto the outside sidewalk, where Barrera and the husband fought. he husband has not been charged with a crime in the fight.<\/p>\n<p>At some point during the encounter, Avery Saul Bowman allegedly attempted to steal a necklace from Barrera&#8217;s neck. A capital murder warrant has been issued for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>As the fight continued, about eight shots were allegedly fired from a handgun with a modified trigger. Police allege that Jermiah Jayden Tobias was the gunman.<\/p>\n<p>Tobias was taken into custody a short time after the shooting, alongside a 16-year-old who was arrested for an unrelated robbery.<\/p>\n<p>19-year-old Jermiah Jayden Tobias has been arrested and charged with two counts of Capital Murder, and is being held on a bond of $1,650,000.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of 19-year-old Avery Saul Bowman is asked to call the San Marcos Police Department at 512-753-2108.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN MARCOS, Texas &#8211; Police are searching for a suspect in connection to a brawl turned shooting that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,54600,54601,7304,54599,7207,7202,48789,7203,101,358,12237,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-79224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-avery-saul-bowman","10":"tag-brawl","11":"tag-capital-murder","12":"tag-jermiah-jayden-tobias","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-san-marcos","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-shooting","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-texas-state-university","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114888219592440630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79224","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=79224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}