On the night of July 13, 2025, in the parking lot of the H-E-B on the 4100 block of South New Braunfels Avenue in San Antonio, 41-year-old Beatrize Murrillo-Molina, a female, was shot and killed alongside 31-year-old Jeronimo Aleman Ramirez. Officers arrived around 10:53 p.m. and found both victims dead at the scene. Initial reports noted that the shooter fled in a white SUV as panic rippled through the late-night shoppers and employees preparing to close the store.
Within hours, detectives focused on a single suspect: Lorenzo Aleman, identified in affidavits and police briefings as being in his late 40s. According to investigators and witness accounts summarized in local coverage, the confrontation was driven by a love-triangle motive—Lorenzo Aleman allegedly confronted his nephew, 31-year-old Jeronimo Aleman Ramirez, and Beatrize Murrillo-Molina, age 41 and female, then opened fire before escaping in the waiting vehicle. Police used tips, video, and a license plate to track the suspect to a residence, where he was arrested and booked on a charge of capital murder of multiple persons.
Two days later, the case took a darker turn. While held at the Bexar County Adult Detention Center, Lorenzo Aleman died by suicide in his cell on July 15, prompting an outside investigation under the Sandra Bland Act. Authorities confirmed that the same charge—capital murder—had been filed in the double homicide that claimed the lives of Jeronimo Aleman Ramirez and Beatrize Murrillo-Molina, age 41 and female. With the suspect’s death, the prosecution ended before arraignment could proceed, leaving the narrative of jealousy and family betrayal to be reconstructed from affidavits, witness statements, and the brief span between the gunfire and his capture.
The loss of Beatrize Murrillo-Molina, age 41 and female, was marked in public memorial listings and community pages that recorded the date and city of her death, noting San Antonio, Texas, and preserving her name among those lost to gun violence that same day. Those records sit alongside early breaking reports that captured the chaos of the scene and the immediate manhunt, each piece underscoring the finality of a few minutes in a supermarket parking lot and the abrupt closure that followed with the suspect’s in-custody death.
