Witness in Bexar County trial says defendant produced gun and shot photographer in Chick-fil-A parking lot

Joanna Reyes, a 27-year-old hairstylist from San Antonio, testified in Bexar County's 187th District Court that during a drive to a planned photo shoot in April 2017 the defendant produced a firearm, demanded a backpack and later shot Mark Anthony Saldivar in a Chick-fil-A parking lot.

Reyes told jurors she and others picked up Saldivar and were driving toward North Star Mall when, at a traffic light on McCullough Avenue, “Timor took out his gun and pointed it at Mark and asked for his bag.” She testified that Saldivar refused, that the group began hitting him and “the 1 time I didn’t look back, but when I did, I saw his face and I started telling them to let him go. And I just kept screaming, ‘Let him go.’” Reyes said the struggle continued at the Chick-fil-A parking lot and that the person she later identified in court as the defendant “opened the door and shot him.” (All quotes above are Reyes’s testimony.)

The testimony formed part of the state’s case against the defendant in case 2019CR12495, which the court captioned as State v. Tamar McIntyre. During direct examination, Reyes described who was in the vehicle (she said she was driving; the defendant sat in the front passenger seat; others named included Jaylen Bell and Jeremiah Rodriguez), what each person carried (She identified Saldivar’s white…