A 22-year-old man has been charged with killing two San Antonio men on subsequent days.
SAN ANTONIO — A 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged with two separate murders that police say happened within hours of one another in different parts of San Antonio.
Officials with the San Antonio Police Department say that, in both cases, the male murder victims used the dating app Grindr to meet people. An ensuing investigation resulted in Jer Auntey Bernard Pleasant being jailed on bonds totaling $700,000.
Arrest affidavits indicate there is physical evidence linking Pleasant to both homicide scenes.
Larry Wilson, 54, was the first to be shot to death on April 14, in an apartment complex parking lot on Cross Creek in northeast San Antonio.
The very next day, authorities say, 22-year-old Joseph Quinton West was found dead in his bed with a gunshot wound to his head after a friend asked police to check on West after not hearing from him.
Arrest affidavits indicate that the link between the two cases was made with ballistic evidence. Detectives say the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) made the connection with spent bullet casings found at both murder scenes. Investigators say they also found latent fingerprints at both scenes that belong to Pleasant.
Police also say that a witness saw a male matching Pleasant’s description running away from Wilson’s car when they heard a shot.
SAPD officials told KENS 5 they were surveilling “a wanted person suspected of committing multiple murders” when they took Pleasant into custody. At that point, police said he had a handgun whose caliber matched the evidence found at both crime scenes.
This is a developing story.
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