Coroner identifies 3 dead in shooting and accident on West Side

SAN ANTONIO – The Bexar County Coroner’s Office on Friday released the names of three people killed in a shooting that ended in a car crash on the West Side.

The incident occurred around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 4300 block of West Martin Street, near the intersection with Northwest 24th Street.

According to police, a vehicle was traveling on West Martin Street when someone in another vehicle began shooting. Then, police say, the vehicle went off the road and landed in a ditch on a set of steps where a man and woman were sitting.

According to police, both people were hit by the vehicle.

Roy Alderete, 37, was pinned under the vehicle and later died at the scene, police said. The medical examiner’s office said Alderete died of blunt force trauma. The woman was treated by emergency personnel at the scene.

According to SAPD, Ariel Martinez, 27, a passenger in the car, was killed. Martinez died of gunshot wounds, the coroner’s office said.

Jonathan David Medrano, 31, the driver of the car, was taken to a nearby hospital where he later died. Medrano also died of gunshot wounds, the coroner’s office said.

No arrests were made in connection with the incident.