Overview
- Texas Department of Public Safety released hours of body- and security-camera video and more than 100 investigative records from the March 15, 2025 South Padre Island shooting.
- The available footage, captured from behind and other angles, does not clearly show an agent being hit, and the HSI shooter was not wearing a body camera.
- Attorneys for Martinez’s mother argue the evidence undercuts DHS assertions and are seeking full transparency and accountability.
- A Cameron County grand jury declined to indict HSI Supervisory Special Agent Jack Stevens; autopsy and toxicology reports confirm three fatal gunshots and a 0.12% blood alcohol level with THC detected.
- Passenger Joshua Orta told investigators the car was “barely moving” and that Martinez panicked, and he died in an unrelated February crash before he could testify.