Maliki Perales, 11, and Drayvn Quiroz, 20, were fatally shot during an ordinary evening outside the family’s far West Side residence.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The evening began with an everyday request to straighten a family vehicle in the driveway. It ended with two brothers mortally wounded outside their home, two younger relatives allegedly fired upon and a neighbor jailed on two counts of capital murder.
Maliki Perales, 11, and Drayvn Quiroz, 20, died after the Aug. 4 shooting in the 9800 block of Acadian Drive on the far West Side of the San Antonio area. Their father, Andrew Perales, told local reporters that the family had asked for the vehicle to be repositioned because it was partly blocking the sidewalk. He said he was on the phone ordering food for his children when shots suddenly rang out. Bexar County authorities accuse Daniel Antonio Perez, 40, who lived across the street, of approaching and opening fire without a known provocation.
In interviews after the shooting, Andrew Perales spoke less about criminal charges than about the two sons his family had lost. He described home life built around work, barbecues, music and movie nights. Quiroz worked alongside his father in the family business, Perales told News 4 San Antonio. The father said his sons were strong and remembered them as young people who stayed close to their family. Sheriff Javier Salazar offered a similar description of the household’s place in the neighborhood, saying the family was known for feeding and helping others. Investigators have not reported a prior feud between the Perales family and Perez.
Maliki was approaching a new stage in childhood when he was killed. Local reporting described him as preparing to begin middle school. His older brother was at a different point in life, working with his father and recovering from significant health problems, according to family accounts reported by San Antonio news organizations. Those details became part of the family’s public remembrance as relatives tried to explain who the brothers were apart from a case file. The circumstances of the shooting placed their names in court records and news reports, but relatives described lives centered on home, relatives and familiar routines rather than conflict with the man accused of killing them.
The violence unfolded shortly after 7:30 p.m. Authorities said the brothers were in or near the family vehicle as it was being moved when Perez crossed from the other side of the street and fired. Both brothers were struck and critically injured. First responders rushed them for emergency treatment. Maliki died later that night. Quiroz survived into the following morning, when Salazar said he died shortly before the sheriff began a news conference about the investigation. Information attributed to the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the brothers and ruled Maliki’s death a homicide.
The gunfire also put two more children from the family in danger, according to investigators. Salazar said a 14-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl were near the home’s front entrance when Perez allegedly fired in their direction. The shots missed them. That allegation broadened the case beyond the deaths of Maliki and Quiroz and contributed to additional assault charges. KSAT reported that Perez faces two capital murder counts, one aggravated assault charge alleging serious bodily injury and four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The precise evidence supporting each individual count will be tested through the court process.
Andrew Perales told News 4 San Antonio that he could not identify a reason for anyone to target his family. “We always help people,” he said in describing the household. Authorities have similarly said they have found no known history of conflict between Perez and the victims. That absence of an established dispute has remained one of the most striking parts of the investigation. Salazar called the shooting “totally unprovoked” in his public account. Detectives have continued examining video, witness statements and Perez’s own actions for information that could clarify what happened in the minutes before the shots were fired.
What followed the shooting created a second phase of the emergency. Investigators said Perez ran through the neighborhood while deputies arrived to help the wounded brothers and search for the suspected shooter. Authorities said Perez called 911 and reported that he had shot his neighbors, but did not disclose where he had gone. Deputies then used cellphone-location information to find him about a quarter-mile away. Salazar said officers located him hiding in the backyard of another residence. Deputies ordered him to surrender at gunpoint and took him into custody about 10 minutes after the original shooting.
A handgun was recovered from a drainage culvert several houses away, according to the sheriff. Investigators also obtained doorbell-camera footage showing Perez at another home. KSAT reported that he made statements there suggesting he feared someone was trying to kill him. Authorities said those statements did not match the evidence they had gathered showing the brothers initiated a threat. Salazar said investigators believed the victims had received no meaningful warning that they were about to be attacked. Prosecutors and defense lawyers will ultimately be able to challenge the significance and interpretation of the videos, physical evidence and statements if the case proceeds toward trial.
Perez’s relatives later told investigators about previous mental health concerns, according to Salazar. The sheriff said family members described depression and episodes in which Perez appeared to perceive things that were not present. Authorities said those concerns had not previously produced a known law enforcement intervention. No publicly released medical finding reviewed for this story establishes a diagnosis or determines Perez’s mental condition when the shooting occurred. That distinction matters because relatives’ descriptions of troubling behavior are not the same as a clinical conclusion, and the existence of a mental health condition would not by itself determine criminal responsibility.
Salazar drew attention instead to what investigators say Perez did after the shooting. The sheriff said Perez discarded a handgun, left the immediate scene and concealed himself in a backyard while deputies searched. Salazar argued that those actions showed purposeful behavior despite the apparent crisis described by family members. He also said Perez’s statements suggesting self-defense were inconsistent with investigators’ understanding of the evidence. Those are law enforcement conclusions at this stage, not court findings. Perez has not been convicted of the charges, and the public reporting reviewed for this article did not identify a final defense strategy from an attorney representing him.
For the Perales family, those legal questions developed alongside funeral arrangements and public mourning. Friends and neighbors organized support for a household that had lost two children within hours. The family’s statements focused on memories: working together, spending evenings at home and watching the brothers grow through very different stages of life. Their father said Quiroz had continued trying to move forward despite recent health struggles. Maliki’s life, meanwhile, ended before he could begin the school year family members had expected him to enter. The shooting transformed an ordinary request involving a parked vehicle into the final shared moments of the two brothers’ lives.
The contrast between that ordinary beginning and the criminal case that followed remains central to the family’s account. There was no scheduled confrontation, according to authorities. No reported meeting had drawn the brothers outside. Investigators have not announced a verified grievance that would explain why Perez allegedly crossed the street armed. Instead, the available evidence places the brothers at their own home carrying out a routine family task moments before the shooting. That chronology is why Salazar has repeatedly described the family as having little or no warning and why detectives continue to treat the absence of a clear motive as an unresolved part of the case.
Perez remained in the Bexar County jail on bonds totaling $2.3 million in the most recent court information reviewed. Local court reporting listed a Nov. 3, 2026, pre-indictment appearance as his next scheduled proceeding. Prosecutors had not yet established through the reports reviewed whether they would pursue the death penalty if the capital murder charges move forward. The allegations will be subject to formal charging decisions and later court proceedings. As that process develops, Maliki Perales and Drayvn Quiroz are being remembered by their relatives not primarily as victims in a criminal case, but as two brothers whose lives revolved around the family home where they were killed.
Author note: Last updated September 20, 2026.