Fatal shooting at apartment complex

SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) - San Marcos Police responded to a fatal shooting at a local apartment complex. The shooting took place at 6:49 p.m. Wednesday at the University Heights II on East River Ridge Parkway. The victim, JonRyan Paysse, was a Texas State student in his junior year from Tow, Texas. Paysse was 21 years old when he was shot in the abdomen.

Paysse was transported by Air Evac to the hospital in Austin where he was pronounced dead. No charges have been filed or are anticipated.

"We all promised each other we would go skydiving together," said friend, Ryan Moeck. Just thinking of promises JonRyan Paysse will not be able to keep has friends of the Texas State student teary-eyed.

"This is going to sting for a while," said Jacque Burris. "Whoever knew JonRyan is going to miss him a lot."

Paysse had just turned 21. Friends said he had purchased a gun with his birthday money.

"I believe it was a 45," said friend Kyle Kaufman. "JonRyan had just bought it the day before yesterday, he just got his hand gun license. From what I know, they were taking it apart and putting it back together."

Paysse and one of his roommates were looking at the gun when it fired, fatally shooting Paysse once in the stomach. Friends of the two roommates said the other young man involved is very upset.

"Knowing your friend from elementary school is not here anymore due to a horrible accident," said Burris. "I can't even begin to imagine what he's going through."

Friends want people to remember Paysse as someone who loved football and having fun.

"He was the happiest person and always had a smile," said Kaufman.

Paysse also had big plans of becoming a construction engineer, was good at anything he tried and always made time to help.

"That was the kind of person he was, always willing to give a hand where ever he could," said Burris.

So the friends gathered the strength to talk, despite their overwhelming sense of loss.

"He was a great person; he didn't deserve it," said Moeck.