Wilian Arnaldo Maldonado Bonilla, 24, a male of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity from San Antonio, was discovered late on the night of Friday, July 25, 2025, with a gunshot wound while lying in a driveway on the 2700 block of Frontier Drive, just off U.S. Highway 90. Officers were called around 11:30 p.m., and he was taken to a hospital, where he died of his injuries.
Days later, the Bexar County Medical Examiner identified Wilian Maldonado Bonilla, 24, and ruled the manner of death a homicide, noting he died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
The setting that night was a strip of West Side streets and parking lots near Highway 90, where surveillance video captured a vehicle driving through a nearby shopping center and club before the confrontation that left Wilian Maldonado Bonilla, 24, on the ground. Investigators described the suspect vehicle as a dark or black SUV seen in the area moments before the shooting, an image police later circulated as they sought leads.
In the weeks that followed, San Antonio police and Crime Stoppers appealed for the public’s help. Flyers and local newscasts repeated the timeline—Friday night, 11:30 p.m.; a driveway along Frontier Drive; a dark SUV—and urged anyone who recognized the vehicle or knew who was behind the wheel to come forward. Tips were directed to Crime Stoppers, which announced a potential reward for information leading to an arrest.
As of the latest reports, authorities had not announced an arrest in the killing of Wilian Maldonado Bonilla, 24, male. Coverage summarizing the case continued to list him among those lost to gun violence in the city, reinforcing that detectives still sought the suspect tied to the dark SUV captured on surveillance video that night.
