Crime-scene investigators describe vehicle processing; eyewitness recounts encounter near San Pedro massage parlor

During testimony in State v. McIntyre, the court heard forensic testimony from crime-scene investigators about evidence recovered from a vehicle connected to the case, and an eyewitness described encountering occupants of that vehicle near San Pedro avenue.

City of San Antonio crime-scene investigator Lisonbee Bustamante testified that she was dispatched on April 28, 2017, to a vehicle at 7243 San Pedro that officers initially reported as an abandoned vehicle possibly involved in a homicide. Bustamante said she photographed the scene, sketched items for collection and collected multiple items, including swabs for possible biological evidence and packaged items later logged as exhibits. She testified that the investigators did not open the vehicle at the scene because they lacked a search warrant; the vehicle was sent to the impound “pound” and later brought to the department’s Ninth Street secure processing facility where a warrant allowed interior processing.

Bustamante identified and described state exhibits (photos and packaged…