{"id":837336,"date":"2019-12-05T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T17:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=837336"},"modified":"2019-12-06T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:11:00","slug":"murder-trial-begins-for-tyler-man-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=837336","title":{"rendered":"Murder Trial Begins in San Antonio for Tyler Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/12\/cheerleader-murder-trial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-837349\" \/>SAN ANTONIO &#8212; The trial of a man accused of killing a Trinity College cheerleader started Wednesday. Investigators say Mark Howerton killed Cayley Mandadi, 19. According to our news partner KETK, it happened  as they traveled between San Antonio and Houston in October 2017. Body camera  and dash camera footage, shows what Howerton told investigators the night he dropped her off at a hospital in Luling.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/12\/Mark-Howerton-AMBULANCE-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-837366\" \/>Howerton said that night the couple got into an argument at a music festival in San Antonio. They left the event and started driving toward Houston and at some point Howerton noticed she stopped breathing. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So I looked at her like, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCayley, Cayley,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and I reached over and felt her throat and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel anything,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Howerton, in an interview with a Guadalupe County deputy. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when I started freaking out.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/12\/Cheerleader-150x115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-837355\" \/>Howerton drove to a hospital in Luling. Sharyl Lane, a paramedic who was on duty that night, testified that when she saw Mandadi for the first time, the 19-year old was almost naked and bleeding from below her waist. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hollering and screaming telling me that his girlfriend is not breathing and he needs help,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Lane. Howerton told investigators both he and Mandadi had been taking MDMA that day, a psychoactive drug more commonly known as ecstasy or molly. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/12\/Mark-Howerton-COURTROOM-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-837365\" \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And her toxicology screening reflected a very high high dose of MDMA in her blood,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said John Hunter, Howerton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s defense attorney. Investigators determined Mandadi died from head injuries as a result of blunt force trauma. A Bexar County grand jury indicted Howerton on charges of murder, aggravated sexual assault and criminal mischief back in April 2018. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8212; The trial of a man accused of killing a Trinity College cheerleader started Wednesday. Investigators say Mark Howerton killed Cayley Mandadi, 19. According to our news partner KETK, it happened as they traveled between San Antonio and Houston in October 2017. Body camera and dash camera footage, shows what Howerton told investigators &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=837336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Murder Trial Begins in San Antonio for Tyler Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":837349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 05:18:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837336"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837466,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837336\/revisions\/837466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/837349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}