{"id":816501,"date":"2026-05-23T09:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/816501\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:06:21","slug":"san-antonio-man-gets-45-years-in-prison-for-shooting-tattoo-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/816501\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio man gets 45 years in prison for shooting tattoo artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Hernandez, 33, was convicted of first-degree murder <\/p>\n<p>Raymond Hernandez, 33, was convicted of murder \u2014 a first-degree felony. (Bexar County Adult Detention Center)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANOTNIO<\/strong> \u2013 A San Antonio man was sentenced to prison on Friday for a shooting that resulted in the death of a tattoo artist outside a South Side home five years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Raymond Hernandez, 33, received 45 years behind bars for shooting tattoo artist Leonel Chavez on April 3, 2021. He was 46 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Hernandez was convicted of murder, a first-degree felony. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Chavez was at a friends house in the 800 block of West Baetz Boulevard near Commercial Avenue before Hernandez approached and shot him just before 10 p.m., a district attorney\u2019s press release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A neighbor who heard the gunshot called San Antonio police as Hernandez fled the scene on foot, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2021\/04\/03\/sapd-man-found-shot-killed-in-south-side-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2021\/04\/03\/sapd-man-found-shot-killed-in-south-side-home\/\">KSAT reported in 2021<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2021\/04\/03\/sapd-man-found-shot-killed-in-south-side-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2021\/04\/03\/sapd-man-found-shot-killed-in-south-side-home\/\"><b>&gt;&gt; SAPD: Man, 28, charged with murder after fatal South Side shooting<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He was shortly taken into custody and SAPD said Hernandez still had a gun at the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Hernandez visited the home \u201cto get a tattoo,\u201d according to the district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>More stories from today on KSAT:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorSamuel Rocha IV headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/SRBYREIS6TRV7FEISOBV\/\" title=\"View Samuel Rocha IV&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Rocha IV<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Samuel Rocha joined KSAT as a Newsroom Trainee in the spring of 2026. He is a San Antonio native and a graduate of San Antonio College and Texas A&amp;M University-San Antonio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raymond Hernandez, 33, was convicted of first-degree murder Raymond Hernandez, 33, was convicted of murder \u2014 a first-degree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":816502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,4219,7202,7203,33864,118068,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,229812],"class_list":["post-816501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-crime","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-southside","tag-tattoo","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-we-follow-through"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116623100184849638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816501","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=816501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}