Search for homicide suspect in San Marcos

The San Marcos Police Department is searching for the suspect involved in a fatal shooting. 

According to police, officers were dispatched early in the morning of Tuesday, August 14 to the parking lot of Park North Condos, an apartment complex in the 1600 block of Aquarena Springs Drive after someone reported finding a person laying in the parking lot who was unresponsive. 

First responders declared the victim dead on scene. He was a male with a gunshot wound to the chest.

The victim has been identified as 27-year-old Matthew Jacob Rodriguez, Jr. of San Marcos.

Anyone with information regarding this homicide is asked to call the San Marcos Police Department non-emergency line at 512.753.2108 or the SMPD Criminal Investigations Division at 512.753.2300.

This is the first homicide in San Marcos this year.

There were five homicides in the City of San Marcos in 2017.