A 30 year old man was found shot to death in the kitchen of an east side home overnight, and police say it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to deduce what the motive was for the crime, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
"There was a large amount of hydroponic marijuana and a trail of marijuana going out to the cul-de-sac," Police Lieutenant Dave Berrigan told News Radio 1200 WOAI. "It looks like a drug deal gone wrong."
Police say the victim had been shot twice in the chest. Berrigan says they do have a witness, a terrified UTSA student who was in the house at the time.
"We have a witness who was actually in the house, climbed out the back door, jumped some fences, and then called it in," he said.
Berrigan says he has given police a description of two men he saw inside the house at the time.
Berrigan says more than a pound of hydroponic marijuana was found near the victim.
Hydroponic marijuana is grown in minerals rather than in soil and is generally grown indoors, away from the prying eyes of police. It is more expensive than traditional marijuana, and Berrigan says the stash found in the home would have been valued in the hundreds if not thousands of dollars.