Police probing murder/ robbery

San Marcos Police are investigating a suspected robbery-homicide at a local apartment complex.

At 7:24 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, San Marcos police reported to an “assist EMS” call at Park North Condominiums at 1624 Aquarena Springs Drive. 

“A family member had found the deceased male at his apartment, with a single gunshot wound,” a press release from the city states. 

The press release did not say why a robbery is suspected to have occurred.

The victim was identified as 20-year-old Aaron “Jack” Jackson Peterman. Justice of the Peace Scott Cary pronounced Peterman dead at the scene. Peterman was then transported to the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy.

The city’s sole firearms-related homicide of 2018 also occurred at Park North Condominiums. In August, Jacob Rodriguez Jr., 27, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the chest in the Park North Condos parking lot. Two brothers, Jacob and Jason Portier, were charged with Rodriguez’s death. The brothers were charged with capital murder by terror threat. The five deaths that resulted from the Iconic Village apartment fire in July 2018 were also ruled homicides. Earlier this year, John Richard Camacho, 27, was shot by San Marcos police officers after refusing to keep his hands up and pulling a pistol on the officers during a traffic stop. The pistol was found to be a pellet pistol manufactured to look just like a semiautomatic handgun. San Marcos Police investigators and the Texas Rangers are investigating that incident.

The city press release states that the Peterman case is an ongoing investigation. 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. 

As has been city policy for almost a year, the Daily Record was not allowed to speak directly to police regarding the incident, and the press release issued Thursday afternoon clearly stated police would not be answering additional questions from the media.