Texas 12-Year-Old Charged With Murder, Accused of Killing Sonic Worker - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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A 12-year-old and a 20-year-old are both facing a murder charge after a restaurant employee was gunned down during an altercation with a customer Saturday night in Keene.
Flowers and a cross now stand outside the Sonic Drive-In on Old Betsy Road in Keene. It's a growing memorial to Matthew Davis, a 32-year-old employee and father who was shot and killed while on the job Saturday night.
According to a statement from Keene Police, the shooting happened at about 9:40 p.m. Angel Gomez, 20, went to the Sonic with several passengers and was acting "disorderly" in the parking lot when Davis confronted him for urinating in the parking lot, Keene Police Chief James Kidd said.
The confrontation turned physical and a 12-year-old who was in Gomez's car pulled out an assault rifle and fired six rounds at Davis, Kidd said.
Davis was struck multiple times and was taken by an air ambulance to a nearby hospital, but he did not survive.
Gomez and the 12-year-old fled the area, but Gomez eventually returned to the scene and was taken into custody. Police tracked the 12-year-old to Rio Vista where he was arrested.
The 12-year-old's name is not being released because he is a minor. Both he and Gomez are being charged with murder.
The restaurant remained closed Monday while neighbors stopped by to leave flowers. Resident Jane Baggett said she felt compelled to do something.
"I wish there was more that we could do, but right now if they could just see that support and love, and maybe, even if we didn't know him, [know] his life mattered to many of us," Baggett said.
A GoFundMe has been started to help Davis' family cover funeral costs and support his 10-year-old son.
A spokesperson for Sonic released the following statement:
"We are saddened to learn about the tragedy involving a franchised team member in Keene, TX. The franchisee is cooperating fully with local authorities as they conduct their investigation."
Keene is about 30 miles south of Fort Worth in Johnson County.
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This is insane. What is wrong with people?
welcome to texas...
...the dumping ground for Biden's illegals.
Angel appears to be a gangbanger....what with all the tattoos and stuff.
New York, California, Illinois, or any other Democrat bastion of stupidity.
Or are you trying to pretend this could not have as easily happened at any one of those places.
... but it didn't, did it. shoulda, coulda, woulda...
Pretty sure the guy with the tattoos is the victim.
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Those shootings don't count, because democrats don't hold some segments of society to the same standards as others. It's the soft racism of low expectations.
things like that never happen in blue America.
always the goddamned deflections
it's so tiresome
but tacos article isn't about Chicago, is it?
Let me guess, the gun made him do it.
It would have been a lot harder to accomplish without it. True?
Many adults fantasize about the righteous justice they will inflict someday with their gun. It’s their inner child at work. Here, we have an actual child, so maybe it shouldn’t surprise us if he didn’t consider other alternatives.
It would be interesting to know if the weapon was legally acquired. Even if so, perhaps it shouldn’t have been.
Legislation didn't stop this. That's been proven time and again. What could have stopped this was the upbringing of the kid.
he's under 18, he won't be doing any time, abbott will pardon him. oh wait, he's hispanic, my bad... /s
Another sad commentary on the state of America.
I drove back and forth thru that state 6 times last year, and have never been unarmed.
Fuckin freedom baby.
God, I bet the people in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Japan, the UK, Canada, Austria, Australia.... etc. are just wondering why they can't be more like us.