Jun 14, 2026 · 42 min · 10 segments
The fatal shooting of a well-known San Antonio rapper puts the community on high alert as police take part in a manhunt to track down the killer. As they piece together the evidence, witnesses point…
[tense music] On January 26th, 2021, San Antonio Police receive a call from a woman requesting a welfare check at an apartment complex on La Cantera Parkway.
La Cantera Parkway, that immediately signals something high profile.
It's a very affluent neighborhood.
The woman says her 34-year-old stepson, Martel Derouen, hasn't been returning her calls for the past four days.
My family and I, we would always talk to him, like, a lot.
We'll talk to him very frequently, and we weren't hearing from him, which was not like Martel at all.
Officers arrive at the address a little before noon.
When we got there, I really thought it was just gonna be a welfare check maybe.
Person sleeping, on meds, doesn't wanna talk to nobody.
But as soon as they get to Martel's door, they realize this isn't going to be a routine visit.
We did notice that on the door, there was a bullet hole.
The bullet hole was about eye level, just to the left of the peephole, and you could see right directly through it.
The officers ask building maintenance for help, but when they try to unlock the door, they discover it's bolted from the inside.
In order to gain entry, they had to, uh, drill through the, the lock on the door.
As soon as I opened the door, you could see the body on the ground.
He was on his back, and you could see dry blood leaving from his head.
And as soon as I saw that, I knew that he was deceased.
Using the description from his stepmother, police identify the victim as Martel Derouen and notify his family.
They made the call saying that he was murdered.
You're so hurt to where you don't even know how to process it.
We didn't know anything that was going on.
That's what confused us the most because we were trying to figure out who could possibly wanna do something like that to him.
[tense music] On January 26th, 2021, San Antonio Police receive a call from a woman requesting a welfare check at an apartment complex on La Cantera Parkway.
La Cantera Parkway, that immediately signals something high profile.
It's a very affluent neighborhood.
The woman says her 34-year-old stepson, Martel Derouen, hasn't been returning her calls for the past four days.
My family and I, we would always talk to him, like, a lot.
We'll talk to him very frequently, and we weren't hearing from him, which was not like Martel at all.
Officers arrive at the address a little before noon.
When we got there, I really thought it was just gonna be a welfare check maybe.
Person sleeping, on meds, doesn't wanna talk to nobody.
But as soon as they get to Martel's door, they realize this isn't going to be a routine visit.
We did notice that on the door, there was a bullet hole.
The bullet hole was about eye level, just to the left of the peephole, and you could see right directly through it.
The officers ask building maintenance for help, but when they try to unlock the door, they discover it's bolted from the inside.
In order to gain entry, they had to, uh, drill through the, the lock on the door.
As soon as I opened the door, you could see the body on the ground.
He was on his back, and you could see dry blood leaving from his head.
And as soon as I saw that, I knew that he was deceased.
Using the description from his stepmother, police identify the victim as Martel Derouen and notify his family.
They made the call saying that he was murdered.
You're so hurt to where you don't even know how to process it.
We didn't know anything that was going on.
That's what confused us the most because we were trying to figure out who could possibly wanna do something like that to him.
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