The Bexar County sheriff said he’s noticed a new trend while investigating crimes: guns being exchanged between young adults and teenagers.

“What we’re seeing is that many times these kids are utilizing these guns and trading them off for another gun that may have been used in something else,” Sheriff Javier Salazar said.

Salazar said that’s what happened in the murder case of Alianna Ujueta, a 17-year-old girl who was shot and killed at a party at the end of September.

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office identified Deshawn Suggs, 18, as the suspect for her murder, but he hasn’t been caught yet. Salazar said the sheriff’s office has retrieved the weapon they believe was used to kill Ujueta, but they didn’t get it directly from Suggs.

“By the time we got it in possession of us, it had alr

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