SAN ANTONIO - Another suspect has been arrested in connection with the brutal killing of a man who was watching over a recently purchased home.
29-year-old Rene Moreno has been arrested and charged with murder after he allegedly participated in the brutal attack that left 39-year-old Eric Perez deceased.
According to the affidavit obtained from the Bexar County Central Magistrate, Perez was found unresponsive with severe head trauma to the back of his head on Friday, May 8, 2026, inside an abandoned home at 8910 Prairie Hill. Police and EMS responded, officers secured the scene, and EMS pronounced Perez dead.
A Bexar County arrest affidavit lays out how investigators say surveillance video, witness statements, and a suspect’s admissions led them to identify Rene Moreno as one of three masked men involved in the killing of Eric Perez inside an abandoned home on Prairie Hill.
While processing the scene, officers were contacted by a male neighbor who lives across the street at 8907 Prairie Hill. The neighbor told officers he had an altercation with Perez that morning and had fresh, visible facial injuries consistent with his account, the affidavit states.
Based on the neighbor’s statement, police obtained a warrant for the residence at 8907 Prairie Hill and collected evidence along with a DVR recorder connected to cameras facing the crime scene.
During the search of 8907 Prairie Hill, police found a man identified in the affidavit as Victor Sigala sleeping inside the home. Sigala provided a statement to detectives that was captured on an officer’s body camera, the affidavit states.
On Friday, May 13, 2026, the Digital Forensics Unit provided investigators with footage from the DVR collected at 8907 Prairie Hill, according to the affidavit. The footage, adjusted to the day of the murder, showed three masked males — listed as suspects 1, 2, and 3 — entering the residence at 8910 Prairie Hill where Perez was found.
The affidavit says suspect 1 (identified as Victor Sigala) carried an aluminum bat and suspect 2 (identified as Rene Moreno) carried a metal rod, while suspect 3 appeared unarmed as the group entered and exited the location.
When the suspects returned, suspect 1 was the only one to remove his mask on camera and was identified as Sigala, the affidavit states. Investigators said Sigala was “clearly the same individual” captured by the surveillance cameras entering and exiting the crime scene carrying a bat.
The affidavit describes multiple witnesses who later came forward. On Thursday, May 21, 2026, a witness described as a close friend of Sigala provided a statement at police headquarters.
The witness told investigators Sigala spoke with her after returning from the location where Perez was found dead and said, “I hit him with a bat,” and “He (Eric) wasn’t moving.”
The witness identified Sigala by signing a single photo of him, and surveillance footage of Sigala returning to 8907 Prairie Hill corroborated her account, the affidavit states.
That witness could not identify suspects 2 or 3 from surveillance photos, but told investigators she believed suspect 2 was Rene Moreno because of his body type and a blue bandana covering his face.
According to the affidavit, the witness said Moreno “always wears that type of handkerchief or bandana,” but at the time of that interview, Moreno had not been positively identified.
On Wednesday, May 27, 2026, another witness — described as a longtime 30-year acquaintance of Sigala — provided a statement saying she spoke with Sigala a few days after the murder at Palo Alto Park.
The affidavit says Sigala admitted to killing Perez, telling her, “I hit him first, I knew I killed him.” The witness reported Sigala said suspect 2, identified as Moreno, also hit Perez, and suspect 3 “just kicked him (Eric).” According to the affidavit, the witness said Moreno stood next to Sigala during the admissions but said nothing.
Investigators said they later interviewed Sigala after his arrest. On Wednesday, June 17, 2026 — the day after Sigala was arrested on a warrant for Perez’s murder — an investigator interviewed him at the Bexar County Jail.
The affidavit states Sigala said Moreno was with him during the attack and admitted Moreno hit Perez “with a pipe or something.”
On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, the investigator wrote that he positively identified Moreno as suspect 2. To corroborate Sigala’s statement, the affidavit says the investigator obtained body-camera footage from an officer’s encounter with Moreno on May 26, 2026, at 11:06 a.m., about one mile from the murder scene.
In that footage, Moreno was wearing a large silver wallet chain on the right side of his pants, appeared to have a distinct dark area on his left hand between his thumb and index finger that could be a tattoo or birthmark, and wore a large silver skull ring on his left pinkie finger, the affidavit states.
The affidavit says further review of the DVR footage from May 8, 2026, showed a male walking to the front door about an hour and 10 to 15 minutes before the murder wearing a large silver wallet chain on the right side of his pants. When the male turned toward the camera, the front of his face was visible and matched Moreno’s appearance in the May 26 body-camera footage, the affidavit states.
Investigators also wrote that footage just before the murder showed suspect 2 carrying a bat and wearing the same wallet chain, with a visible dark spot on his left hand between the thumb and index finger and a large ring on his left pinkie finger — identifiers investigators said matched Moreno.
On June 30, 2026, the investigator said he spoke to an acquaintance of both Sigala and Moreno. She told investigators she had known and seen Moreno hanging around with Sigala and in the area for the past few years. The affidavit states she was shown a single photo and identified him as Moreno.
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51-year-old Victor Sigala remains in the custody of the Bexar County Jail, charged with murder, with an outstanding bond of $250,000.
Rene Moreno remains in the custody of the Bexar County Jail, charged with murder, with an outstanding bond amount of $200,000.
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