SAN ANTONIO — More than a year after she disappeared while walking on a northwest-side trail , Bexar County officials have identified a suspect now accused of sexually assaulting and murdering 63-year-old Stacey Dramiga.

Samuel Aquim Charon, 23, was arrested "without incident" and faces charges of capital murder and tampering with a corpse after Sheriff Javier Salazar said he most likely ambushed and attacked Dramiga in broad daylight last year.

"Definitely a savage, savage crime," Salazar said Wednesday, after Charon was taken into custody. "One of the more heinous that I've been associated with."

Dramiga was initially reported missing by family members hours after she left for a walk Sept. 22, 2024, on the Salado Creek Greenway trail—something she was known to regularly do. When she

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