Leidy Hernandez returned to Bexar County as two women face charges in Manuel Mendez’s death

A second suspect in the March killing

Leidy Guadalupe Hernandez has been booked into the Bexar County jail on capital murder and aggravated robbery allegations in the investigation into the death of Manuel Gomez Mendez Jr., an 84-year-old man whose body was found burning in a Southeast Side ditch in March.

Hernandez, 43, was taken into custody October 1, according to the county record. A separate October 6 booking follows an extradition entry. The two records carry the same SID and the same two warrant numbers.

Ulani Mable Nunes, 23, is the other woman named in the publicly reported murder investigation. She was already in custody on an earlier booking when the capital murder allegation was entered in September.

Police allege a plan to rob and kill Mendez

Mendez’s body was found March 28 along Rigsby Avenue. Public reporting describes police allegations that the women arranged to meet him under the pretense of renting property, restrained him and suffocated him as part of a plan to take his money.

The reported warrant account says surveillance footage and phone records helped investigators connect the suspects to Mendez and the location where his body was found. Those are allegations described in the reporting; the affidavit itself was not reviewed for this article.

The county records show an extradition sequence

Hernandez’s October 1 record identifies the facility as Virtual Booking and an out-of-county sheriff as the arresting agency. Both charges are marked Extradited to Bexar-VB, with October 6 entered as the release date for that record.

Her October 6 record identifies the Bexar Adult Detention Center and lists the same capital murder and aggravated robbery allegations. No release date is shown in that booking. The earlier release field records an extradition transition, not a bond release.

Both records list March 25 as the alleged offense date for the capital murder charge and April 6 for aggravated robbery. Those dates describe the allegations, rather than the dates she was booked.

Nunes’s July booking carries a later murder entry

Nunes’s existing July 21 booking lists aggravated robbery, a parole violation and capital murder. The murder entry gives September 29 as its arrest date and March 25 as the alleged offense date.

The later murder allegation therefore appears within her earlier jail booking. The complete three-charge list is preserved on her existing website entry, alongside the distinct Hernandez records. The county bookings do not establish a court finding on the allegations.