San Antonio police: Man asked for job, then shot clerk in face

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SAN ANTONIO -- Three days before he would be charged with capital murder in an unrelated case, Cameo Marcus Clines told a clerk he wanted a job at a Southeast Side convenience store.

When the clerk looked up to tell Clines the manager was not there, Clines shot him in the face with a handgun, according to a police report released Monday.

The June 29 shooting precipitated a three-hour standoff, during which Clines was holed up in a nearby apartment complex, ignoring commands from police to surrender.

When Clines did surrender, he was charged with aggravated robbery in connection with the standoff. The capital murder charge was filed after authorities, through questioning, connected Clines to the June 18 robbery and killing of Xavier Cordero, 20.

On June 29, Clines walked into the Shop-N-Go Food Mart in the 5400 block of South New Braunfels Avenue just after 11 a.m., according to police. He grabbed a Gatorade from the back of the store and came to the counter, the clerk told police.

Clines put the Gatorade on the counter and asked if the manager was there, the clerk told police. Clines said he was looking for a job and wanted to talk to the manager, the report states.

The clerk told police he looked up to see a gun in his face. Then Clines fired, according to police.

The clerk was scared, he told police, and started giving Clines money from the cash register. Clines ran out of the store with the money, the clerk told police.

Police wrote that the clerk "was in shock and had a hard time talking" due to the gunshot wound to his face. He was bleeding from where the bullet had punctured his cheek, police said.

A witness chased Clines to an apartment complex in the next block and identified Clines after the standoff was over, according to police.

The apartment complex was also the home of Antoinette Martinez, 19, who also faces capital murder charges in Cordero's death. Bexar County deputies have said the two were accomplices.

While Clines was waiting, handcuffed, in the interview room June 29, he took off his belt and tried to put it around his head, the report states. An officer managed to take the belt away, and Clines said told him, "Just put a bullet in my head."

Clines also faces a charge of burglary of a vehicle, for which he is being held in the Bexar County Jail without bail.

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