San Antonio police: Victim's dismembered body parts found on grill after bat-beating death

Gabriel Moreno, 32, faces a charge of murder for his alleged involvement in the slaying of Jose Luis Menchaca. Gabriel Moreno, 32, faces a charge of murder for his alleged involvement in the slaying of Jose Luis Menchaca. Photo: Courtesy / San Antonio Police Department Photo: Courtesy / San Antonio Police Department Image 1 of / 18 Caption Close San Antonio police: Victim's dismembered body parts found on grill after bat-beating death 1 / 18 Back to Gallery

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio police and Bexar County sheriff's deputies have recovered new evidence in the killing of a man whose dismembered body parts were found on a grill in October, according to authorities.

A search warrant was executed late Monday night at a property in the 9100 block of Canter Horse Drive, located in Northwest Bexar County.

Authorities spent several hours searching the site after learning that physical evidence related to the slaying of Jose Luis Menchaca, 35, might be found there.

Police acknowledged that evidence was recovered but have not yet said exactly what was found.

Menchaca’s body was found in a garage at a San Antonio home in the 400 block of Hillwood Drive a few days after the slaying.

Officer Douglas Greene, a San Antonio Police Department spokesman, said some of his body parts were found on a grill, where the suspects had allegedly tried to conceal or destroy evidence.

Candie Dominguez, 35, and Daniel Moreno Lopez, 28, were both charged with murder for their alleged roles in the killing after one of Menchaca’s relatives had called police to report him missing.

Gabriel Moreno, a third suspect in the case, was arrested a short time after Lopez and Dominguez.

Moreno, 32, also faces a charge of murder.

Menchaca had last been seen Sept. 30 at the home of Dominguez and Lopez, police said at the time.

An arrest warrant affidavit for the pair said the woman who filed the missing persons report was told by a witness that Menchaca had been attacked by both Dominguez and Lopez in Dominguez’s bedroom that day.

Prior to the killing, the document said, Dominguez told the witness to keep her three children in another room.

While he was in the other room, he said he could hear the sounds of Menchaca being beaten and later saw his body being moved from the house into Dominguez’s vehicle, according to the document.

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