On today’s date (03-04-19), at approximately 2:30am, the New Braunfels Police Department and the New Braunfels Fire Department were called to the Rodeway Inn hotel located in the 1200 block of I-35 North for a report of a gunshot victim.
Officers arrived and, inside one of the hotel rooms, they found a male who was deceased from an apparent gunshot wound. Justice of the Peace for Pct. 3 Mike Rust arrived, pronounced the male deceased, and ordered an autopsy. The victim has since been identified as 18-year old Maximiliano Miranda of New Braunfels. Next of kin has been notified.
The investigation by detectives with the NBPD Criminal Investigation Division (C.I.D.) is ongoing, to include interviewing witnesses. Additional information will be released as the investigation allows.