SAN ANTONIO – Update (Noon, Feb. 7): The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a man who was found in a vehicle submerged in a South Side creek.
Eliazar Diego Flores, 23, died of blunt force injuries, the office said. The manner of death is an accident.
San Antonio police and fire officials found his body in a vehicle in Leon Creek along State Highway 16 South, near Lone Star Pass, on Sunday morning. He was the only occupant in the vehicle.
Original (1:59 p.m., Feb. 4): A man’s body was found in a vehicle submerged in water Sunday morning on the South Side, according to San Antonio police and fire officials.
Authorities were called by a passerby who saw what appeared to be a vehicle submerged in water near State Highway 16 and Lone Star Pass. Police said they are working to find out when the crash took place.
The San Antonio Fire Department pulled the man’s body out of the vehicle, and he was later pronounced dead.
As a part of SAPD’s investigation, the department closed State Highway 16 and directed traffic toward Watson Road.
State Highway 16 has since reopened on Sunday afternoon.