Anthony Michael Sanchez, 35, a San Antonio man, was shot during a confrontation on the West Side just before 8 a.m. on September 13, 2025, in the 900 block of San Fernando Street near downtown. Officers found Anthony Michael Sanchez with gunshot wounds to the arm and head; he was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead. The Bexar County Medical Examiner later identified the victim as Anthony Michael Sanchez, 35, confirming the timeline of the morning altercation that escalated into gunfire and
an immediate search for the shooter.
In the initial hours, police believed the gunman had fled, and SWAT cleared a nearby apartment as part of the search. As the investigation unfolded, details from an arrest affidavit described how a domestic thread ran through the violence: before the second shot, the victim’s wife heard him address someone as “cuz,” a desperate plea moments before the fatal round. Witnesses later told detectives they saw the same man shoot Anthony Michael Sanchez twice, a sequence that anchored the case narrative in the minutes between the first and second shots.
By September 16, detectives arrested 29-year-old Alejandro Antonio Cruz, the victim’s cousin, on a murder charge in connection with the killing of Anthony Michael Sanchez. According to court records cited in local reporting, Cruz was identified in a six-photo lineup and booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center; a judge set his bond at $250,000. The arrest shifted the investigation from a citywide search to a court-bound case framed by family ties and eyewitness accounts.
Public records and community memorials have since marked the date and loss: listings of gun-violence victims reflect that Anthony Sanchez, age 35, died in San Antonio on September 13, 2025. With the accused in custody and charged, authorities continue to trace the moments that led from a verbal dispute to deadly gunfire, shaping a prosecution that began with a name, a morning street corner, and a family connection no one could take back.
