Body cam video shows alleged intruder begging police for help after fatal gunfight with San Antonio area homeowner

Judge Melisa Skinner, left, and Universal City Police Officer Christopher Rosales watch a bodycam video showing a wounded Jonathan Perales, who is accused of the capital murder death of Michael Clayton Robinson in Universal City. The scene was in 290th District Court on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. less Judge Melisa Skinner, left, and Universal City Police Officer Christopher Rosales watch a bodycam video showing a wounded Jonathan Perales, who is accused of the capital murder death of Michael Clayton Robinson ... more Photo: Billy Calzada /Staff Photographer Photo: Billy Calzada /Staff Photographer Image 1 of / 71 Caption Close Body cam video shows alleged intruder begging police for help after fatal gunfight with San Antonio area homeowner 1 / 71 Back to Gallery

Jurors watched the video screen intently Tuesday as a young man writhed on the floor, begging Universal City police officers to call an ambulance.

“Can you help me? Please, bro, I’m dying, dude,” Jonathan Andrew Perales, then 18, tells the officers in the video taken by an officer’s body cam. “I don’t want to die. I’m sorry. I’ll tell you everything. He shot me and I shot back.”

Perales, now 19, is on trial on a capital murder charge, accused of breaking into a house in the 8400 block of Ulysses Drive in Universal City on Oct. 10, 2017, and killing the homeowner in a gunfight.

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Michael Clayton Robinson, 51, was home with his wife and two of his six children when they were awakened by an intruder. Robinson, a physician assistant, grabbed his 9mm Glock and yelled out to the unseen burglar, “Get out of my house.”

When Robinson opened the door to his bedroom, he saw Perales with a gun, witnesses said. Both men shot each other. Robinson later died. Perales, wounded, left in his car, police said, but got lost inside the subdivision and ended up at a nearby house, begging for help.

Two 911 calls were made that night, one from Robinson’s wife after the home invasion, and another from the homeowner who found the injured teen on his lawn and took him inside his house, fearing whoever shot the youth might still be nearby. It wasn’t until the officers arrived at that second house that they realized the two calls were related.

In the video taken at the second house, several Universal City police officers are seen trying to calm Perales, who had been shot twice and was screaming that he needed EMS or to be taken to the hospital for his injuries.

Prosecutor Rose Zebell told the jury that the Robinsons, married for 28 years, were having “an ordinary night” until Perales broke into their home, and Robinson grabbed his gun to protect his family and his home.

“He never even made it out of the bedroom door,” Zebell told the panel.

She told jurors they would hear that Perales had the gun used in the shooting in his pocket, and was wearing one red Nike tennis shoe, the companion of which was found inside the Robinson home.

In his opening statement, defense attorney Jeff Mulliner told the jury the defense would not dispute much of what went on that night, but he emphasized that Perales didn’t mean to kill anyone, that he was just looking for some quick cash and found an unlocked door at the Robinson home.

He also told the panel they would hear from Perales himself.

“He does not have clean hands,” Mulliner said of Perales.

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Mulliner told the panel Perales had taken four bars (long, scored pills) of “street” Xanax that night, which sometimes is more potent than the prescription form, and when he heard Robinson tell him to get out of the house, he went looking for the front door but got confused, opened the bedroom door and the men shot at each other.

“Voluntary intoxication is not a defense to a criminal offense,” he told the jury. “He was out of his right mind. He didn’t know Clay got hurt. He found out later.”

In the afternoon, the jury heard testimony from a Bexar County medical examiner who testified that Robinson had two gunshot wounds — one entrance and exit wound near the elbow, and another on the left side of the abdomen. The examiner said the wound in the torso damaged the diaphragm, aorta and large veins, which caused Robinson to bleed out into his abdomen and chest.

Prosecutors entered into evidence items from the Robinson home that were taken from the trunk of the Chevrolet Impala that Perales was driving that night, which also included a speed loader for a .38 caliber revolver similar to one in the gun taken from Perales’ pants pocket.

The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office is not seeking the death penalty in this case. If convicted, Perales would automatically be sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole.

The case is being heard in the 290th state District Court, Judge Melisa Skinner presiding.

Elizabeth Zavala is a courts and crime reporter in the San Antonio and Bexar County area. Read her on our free site, mySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com. | ezavala@express-news.net | Twitter: @elizabeth2863