Isaac Flores, a 19-year-old Black/African American male, was killed in Houston, Texas, in the early morning hours of July 28, 2019. According to the Houston Police Department’s public information release, the shooting happened at approximately 1:40 a.m. at 666 Maxey Road. Police said Flores was involved in an argument with another man when the confrontation escalated into gunfire.
Flores was struck at least once during the shooting.
After the shots were fired, the suspect fled the scene, leaving Flores critically wounded. Emergency responders transported him to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Houston Police Department initially withheld his identity pending verification by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, but later public memorial information identified him as Isaac Flores and connected him to the July 28, 2019 fatal shooting in Houston.
The publicly available police account of the case is limited. HPD reported that a witness saw Flores arguing with the suspect shortly before the shooting and that the suspect then fired in Flores’s direction. Police described the suspect only as a Hispanic male and did not publicly name him in the original release. No additional confirmed details were located in online public sources showing that HPD publicly identified a suspect, announced an arrest, or released a case update naming the person responsible.
A family member of Isaac Flores later stated that information previously published about the case was incorrect and clarified that Flores was killed at 666 Maxey Road. The family member also stated that the person responsible was Jose Cruz Salguro. That name was provided by the family member, but it could not be independently verified through the online public sources reviewed. Searches of available public information did not locate a confirmed police update, court record, arrest notice, trial record, or conviction record directly tying Jose Cruz Salguro to the killing of Isaac Flores.
Based on the available verified information, Flores’s case should be described as a fatal shooting that followed an argument at 666 Maxey Road, not as any unrelated storyline or incident from another case. The confirmed public record shows that he was shot, taken to the hospital, and died from his injuries, while the suspect fled before police arrived. As of the online information reviewed, no publicly verified arrest, charge, trial, or conviction was located in connection with his death.
