San Antonio Double Murder Case “Charles Fields”
A Texas man by
the name of Charles Fields was arrested early August 2015. Fields is a
19-year-old African American male, residing in the city of San Antonio.
Police arrested Fields in connection with the death of Elliot Hudson.
Hudson’s body was found shot to death in a vehicle which was parked in
the parking lot of a local San Antonio Motel 6. According to police
records, Charles Fields shot and killed Elliot Hudson during a drug deal
that went wrong.
Fields was supposed to meet up with the
victim, Elliot Hudson, to make a transaction between marijuana and cash.
Fields decided to take it all and get away, shooting Elliot Hudson in
his car before ever letting him get out. There was another male occupant
in the vehicle who was very helpful with the police. The witness told
police that he heard four shots and saw Hudson slumped over the steering
wheel. That’s when he climbed over Hudson and drove him to a nearby
hospital where he died on arrival.
Charles Fields admitted to
being at the Motel 6 on the night Hudson was killed. He just says that
he blacked out and doesn’t remember what happened. He also stated that
he did not know the other guys that were in the car with him at the
Motel 6. On July 18, 2015, before Fields was arrested, he posted on
Facebook about something bad he did. He did not mention exactly what he
did, however he did let the world know that he did something wrong.
Fields Facebook post stated, “Now I den sum fucced up shit, I ain’t gone
lie, but I’m trilla then a bitch and you can’t even lie” (Charles
Fields, 2015). This Facebook post was posted in early July, around the
same time Elliot Hudson was killed and around the same time a man named
Jonathan Hernandez body was found.
Police suspect Fields to
be involved in the death of 20-year-old Jonathan Hernandez. Hernandez’s
body was found under a home, which was a site for construction workers.
The construction workers entered the home and knew something was wrong
right away because of the extremely foul odor and trail of blood leading
to the body of Jonathan Hernandez. Hernandez was found shot to death
and wrapped up in a sheet. Even though police believed Charles Fields to
be the killer in the Hernandez case, they did not have enough evidence
at the time to charge him. So, Fields was not charged with that homicide
at the time of his arrest.
Then the police got a break, they got
the call they waited nine long months for, a call from the San Antonio
crime lab. The crime lab told detectives that the DNA found on the
partial marijuana joint found in Hernandez’s car matched the DNA of
Charles Fields. Fields was taken from the correctional facility in which
he was currently being held and brought back to court to be charged
with the murder of Jonathan Hernandez.
What is so touching
about the Hernandez case is the fact that when the story aired on the
news, his father saw the airing and called in explaining that there was a
possibility that the man found dead and wrapped in a sheet was his son.
The father explained that his son had been missing for a few days and
he hasn’t seen or heard from him. The father also stated that the last
time he saw his son, he told him the he was going to purchase a handgun
from a man who posted a handgun for sale ad on Facebook. That was
several days earlier before Hernandez body was discovered. In addition,
the Facebook for sale post on the handgun was a post made from Charles
Fields.
Fields is currently incarcerated at the Bexar County
jail in San Antonio Texas. He is currently awaiting trial for both
murders of Elliot Hudson and Jonathan Hernandez. He does have a bond set
in the amount of $100,000. The Fields family and the Hernandez family
have gone back and forth with one another in Facebook posts for a while.
The Hernandez family says that the Fields family were bragging in
Facebook posts about killing their loved one. In this case, it’s only a
matter of justice for the Hernandez and Hudson families. As Charles
Fields continues to sit in jail, the families of the victims continue to
wait for a trial and for the day that they receive justice.
