The victim, a 31-year-old male from San Antonio was identified as Jeronimo Aleman Ramirez. Late on the night of July 13, 2025, police were called at 10:53 p.m. to the parking lot of an H-E-B at 4100 South New Braunfels Avenue, where the 31-year-old male and a 41-year-old woman were found with multiple gunshot wounds beside a vehicle. Both were pronounced dead at the scene, the 31-year-old male later named as Jeronimo Aleman Ramirez and the woman as Beatriz Murillo.
Investigators said the meeting among the three had spiraled into an argument moments before the shooting, and witnesses described a white SUV leaving the lot.
Within hours, San Antonio Police identified a suspect and moved swiftly. By early morning on July 14, officers had arrested Lorenzo Aleman, 48, after witnesses helped pick him out of a photo lineup. The affidavit described the 31-year-old male victim, Jeronimo Aleman Ramirez, as the nephew of the suspect, and the woman as the suspect's girlfriend or wife; it also alleged the pair had been in an intimate relationship “behind the defendant's back.” Detectives said the confrontation unfolded beside the woman's vehicle; the suspect approached on foot and opened fire before fleeing in the white SUV that witnesses had noticed. Aleman was booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on a capital murder charge for multiple victims and held on a $600,000 bond.
As the case widened, records and local reporting filled in the remaining contours. The 31-year-old male, Jeronimo Aleman Ramirez, was memorialized by gun-violence trackers following confirmation of his death in San Antonio on July 13. Police and media outlets framed the killings as the violent end to a love triangle: the 31-year-old male and the 41-year-old woman together in the parking lot when the suspect—described as their uncle and boyfriend, respectively—arrived and shot them multiple times. The suspect's arrest came less than five hours after the shootings.
Two days later, another abrupt turn: the suspect was found dead in a Bexar County jail cell on July 15, his manner of death ruled a suicide by the medical examiner while a separate agency opened an in-custody death investigation. Authorities thus closed in on the narrative of the killings—an alleged jealousy-fueled double murder—while the prosecution itself ended before any trial could begin. For the 31-year-old male victim, Jeronimo Aleman Ramirez, the official portrait remains the same: a man shot to death in a grocery store parking lot on a summer night, with the person accused of killing him arrested, charged, and then gone.
