EXCLUSIVE Yamirla Chavez’s last two months at the Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services, or RAICES, are a blur to her now. She’d been a senior staff attorney for the nonprofit organization’s Unaccompanied Children’s Program, fighting in court on behalf of children who fled violence and poverty in other countries to start […]
Author Archives: Paul Flahive
Paul Flahive is a San Antonio-based journalist whose work focuses on the ways Texas treats people in its care be it prisons, jails or foster care. He was a 2024 Pulitzer Center US StoryReach Fellow, and his project When Home Is the Danger exposing the state's negligent approach to abuse and neglect investigations led to children being left in abusive and neglectful homes It was recently honored with the Collier Prize's first Spotlight Award. His work has been featured in the Texas Tribune, The San Antonio Express-News, and heard by millions of listeners of NPR.
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‘They Were Very Sorry for Your Loss’: Ex-San Antonio Officers Found Not Guilty in City’s First Murder Trial for Police Shooting
Monday’s verdict in an historic case — San Antonio’s first-ever murder case in a police shooting — followed a month-long trial of the former officers. Five women and seven men deliberated for less than two hours. They found Nathanial Villalobos, Alfred Flores, and Eleazar Alejandro not guilty on all counts. Alejandro’s small frame leaned into […]
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‘The Video Speaks for Itself.’ An Historic Murder Case Puts San Antonio Officers on Trial.
The 379th Criminal District Court in San Antonio was bulging with people last Friday, so filled with journalists, police, attorneys, and staff that bailiffs shooed those without a seat out the door. People wanted to see, first-hand, the unprecedented trial that was set to begin. Before the judge called the room to order, Bexar County […]