SAN ANTONIO – Even after 20 years, George Sendejo said the memory haunts him.
Sendejo said on the evening of March 21, 1995, his nephew Augustine Sendejo III, 14, left for a nearby friend's house not long after a gang skirmish in their Southeast Side neighborhood.
Then came a single gunshot.
Sendejo said he rushed outside with his cane as best he could, despite his paralysis from polio.
His nephew had collapsed in the middle of San Rafael Street in front of their home after a drive-by shooting.
The boy's uncle said he begged his mortally wounded nephew, "No, no, don't, please don't go."
Sendejo said moments later, his nephew died in his arms.
"I think about it every day, every day of my life," Sendejo said.
Also at his side was Betty Sendejo, Augustine Sendejo III's then 19-year-old cousin the boy had grown up with.
"He had a big gunshot wound to his side. He was in a pool of blood," Betty Sendejo said.
Augustine Sendejo II, the victim's father, said, "They just shot him in the back. They didn't know who they shot."
George Sendejo said that earlier that evening a man had come by their house brandishing a weapon looking for "Junior," a person who did not live there.
But Betty Sendejo said after hearing the gunfire, "There was some boys running by hiding guns in their jeans."
She said police also were given a vehicle description of "a black Bronco with loud exhaust, (with) lights on top."
Betty Sendejo said she believes her cousin was in the wrong place at the wrong time, a case of mistaken identity.
Augustine Sendejo II said, "I know there were several people involved, that they're covering up for each other."
He said police have told him through the years, they haven't had enough evidence to make an arrest.
Two decades after his murder, the family of Augustine Sendejo III begs for new leads in what is now a cold case.
The teenager, an aspiring boxer and student at Southside High School, died in front of a house he had helped his father build for their family.
"He'd even picked out his room on the second floor," George Sendejo said.
But after the murder, the victim's father said he couldn't face living there.
Augustine Sendejo II said, "It doesn't feel like he's gone. He's still with us."