Daniel Sebastian Ordonez faces charges for tampering with evidence after his father Daniel Antonio Ordonez was found shot dead in a trash bag behind their San Antonio home. Police allege Ordonez went on a shopping spree at Walmart and Home Depot to cover up the killing while his father's body lay nearby. The discovery followed a family member's welfare check prompted by unusual smartwatch activity.
San Antonio police responded to a welfare check at the home shared by Daniel Sebastian Ordonez, 31, and his father Daniel Antonio Ordonez in early April after a relative reported the elder Ordonez missing. The relative tracked strange activity on his smartwatch. Officers found the father's phone and keys buried in a flower pot, along with a vehicle showing a bullet hole in the rear driver's side window, according to the arrest affidavit obtained by the San Antonio Express-News and WOAI reports. Drag marks in blood led to a black trash bag containing the body on clear plastic sheeting, with blood leaking out. Blood cleaning evidence was found inside the residence using reagent tests, police said. An autopsy by the Bexar County Medical Examiner confirmed Daniel Antonio Ordonez died from a gunshot wound to the head in a homicide. Surveillance footage and bank records linked Daniel Sebastian Ordonez to purchases at Walmart for towels, duct tape, and a mummy-style sleeping bag, and at Home Depot for gloves, a shovel, sledgehammer, acrylic sheets, a scoring tool, CLR cleaner, concrete mix, and a trowel. He and his wife arrived during the search and consented, but he has denied involvement in the shooting. Ordonez is held on $150,000 bond, charged only with tampering with evidence and failing to report remains. He is scheduled for court on July 8.
