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Bexar County Sheriff Names Suspect in Shooting That Killed Two Brothers in San Antonio

Sheriff Javier Salazar said the man accused of shooting the brothers outside their San Antonio home lived across the street and is in custody.

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 11, 2026, 9:35 p.m. ET

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, , have named Daniel Antonio Perez as the man accused of shooting brothers outside their home. said Perez allegedly crossed his street and shot the brothers while they were outside the house. The suspect is , according to local12.com and dailymail.com. The Bexar County Sheriff's Office is the responding agency, and officials placed the shooting only at the level, in . The reporting available for this account fixes the sequence of events — the shooting in the evening, one death that same night, the other the next morning — but supplies no calendar date, so none is given here. people were killed, according to as reported by local12.com and police as reported by dailymail.com. The victims were named as Maliki Perales, 11, and his brother, identified in reporting as Dravyn Quiroz or Drayvn Quiroz, 20 — the spelling differs between local12.com and dailymail.com. Their names were released by Bexar County authorities and, in the case of the 11-year-old, the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office; their father, Andrew Perales, spoke about both sons. Andrew Perales said Maliki, who suffered gunshots to his head and torso, died from his injuries that same night, and that Dravyn died the following morning. The Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office said Maliki Perales was pronounced dead at 8.49pm after suffering gunshot wounds to the head and torso. Drayvn Quiroz died shortly after 9am the following morning. Accounts of what the brothers were doing differ. local12.com reported that the were outside their home in and that the family had asked the sons to move their vehicle because it was partially blocking the sidewalk. dailymail.com reported that officials said Maliki Perales and Drayvn Quiroz were moving a car into the driveway outside their home when they were shot. Sheriff Javier Salazar said the suspect was located using a cell phone signal. "The only reason we found him is because we were able to utilize his cell phone signal to ping where he was," the sheriff said. He also said: "He still had the presence of mind and the culpable mental state to go conceal the weapon somewhere, and then go conceal himself somewhere else." Salazar said relatives had since described earlier concerns. "What we're hearing since then from family members is that there had been some signs," he said. "There had been some issues with him going through mental health crises before depression, possibly seeing things that were not there. That was never reported to authorities." Of the family, the sheriff said: "It's an extremely unfortunate situation for the family that just simply fell victim to this guy. Unbeknownst to them, they had what I would believe and categorize as a ticking time bomb right across the street from them." Officials have not stated a motive.

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