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Phillip Hernandez

Case from San Antonio, TX dated Oct 13, 1996

Victim Details

Phillip Hernandez

September 3, 2022

Male

San Antonio

TX

1996-10-13

Phillip

Hernandez

06/29/2026


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A young man is stabbed to death while sitting in a car with his girlfriend
Just after midnight on the morning of Sunday, October 13, 1996, Phillip Hernandez had just returned with his girlfriend from a date at Rivercenter Mall. Hernandez and his girlfriend were sitting in his car, a 1987 blue Oldsmobile 4- door, in front of his girlfriend's home in the 1900 block of Schley, when three Hispanic males 15 to 16 years old approached the car. After one of the males stated Is that them?, one male began punching Hernandez through the open window on the driver's side of the ca ...
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  • SAPD: No apparent motive in deadly 1996 stabbing - KSAT

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