Julio Cesar Martinez Padron, 59, male, left a West Side bar in San Antonio on the night of Sunday, October 19, 2025, after a dispute that had flared inside. As he settled into his SUV outside the business at 434 Historic Old Highway 90, another patron—identified by police as 43-year-old Ramiro Espinoza Jr.—walked to his own vehicle, retrieved a handgun, approached, and said, “I got you now,” before firing multiple rounds into the SUV.
Officers found Martinez Padron unresponsive with gunshot wounds to the head around 11 p.m.; he was rushed to University Hospital and died the following day, Monday, October 20, 2025.
Detectives pieced together what happened from witness accounts, surveillance video that captured the confrontation and the suspect leaving, and automated license plate reader data that traced the vehicle. A witness later picked Espinoza out of a lineup, strengthening the case that the argument inside the bar had spilled into the parking lot and turned deadly within minutes.
Two days after the shooting, police arrested Espinoza and charged him with murder. Court records and local reports note he was booked into the Bexar County jail on a $250,000 bond as investigators continued working to determine a fuller motive for the killing. The arrest affidavit anchors the narrative: a brief quarrel, a calculated retrieval of a weapon, a chilling remark, and a close-range barrage that ended a life.
