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.
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
When I think back to when my son was 12, I see him playing football, baseball & video games not brandishing an assault rifle.
who goes to a fast food joint with their family and a loaded AR in the car?
obviously this dumbass did so.
I mean, have you eaten the food there?
A 20 year old Hispanic guy....................next
You don't like it?
My limited experience was not satisfying.
yes, and in texas, and had an altercation with a manager as well...
yeah some folks get all kinds of riled up over food.
sometimes it is actually funny!
it's pretty hard for anybody to fuck up ice cream. pass on everything else. minimum wage is shit in texas and you get what you pay for.
Sonics here don't start anyone at minimum wage. try something else.
I remember a story about a woman I think from Florida who called 911 cuz McDonalds was out of chicken nuggets
You earn what you are worth.
I wonder how long it took for the goober franchisees to figure that one out. the one I went to had their drive up window boarded up so that the help could walk thru the door with your food and lean on you for a tip. maybe that was the employees idea...
Here, we don't have drive up windows. Speaker to order and then someone comes out with your order when it's done.
yeah kind of the point of Sonic. Carside service is what they are known for, along with good drink specials.
why do they have a drive up window then, and why should I tip somebody that hands me my order?
gee maybe it would have been wise to ask THEM since the answer really seems important.
tipping is a personal choice.
here, let me help you. they boarded up the drive up window to make tipping the only choice...
you are smart enough to know the workers can't actually make you tip.
as stated before, tipping or not is a personal choice .
surely "minimum wage" earners didn't pressure you in some way to tip.
so they forced you to tip?
how much did they take from you?
how do you think this helps ME?
you had questions about Sonic, not me.
you're smart enough to know what happens to returning restaurant customers that don't tip.
well gee, you sounded so disappointed in Sonic I couldn't picture you ever returning.
and besides, you are smart enough to know that no one forced you to tip a dime.
yeah dumbass customers who don't tip aren't very popular.
can't imagine why.
no. nothing, hence the confrontation with the shift manager. I haven't been back there since last october, and according to someone I know that lives there, the drive up window is now operational after an adverse write up in the local paper about it. the franchisee there was only paying minimum wage to the food runners and was encouraging them to ask for the change on the drive up window orders. due to local reaction it had to shut down for 3 months until the snowbirds came back. tough shit, huh?
I've actually worked for tips in a restaurant before. how much should I tip someone to carry my order from the counter 10 feet to my car window because the operator isn't using the drive up window?
not a problem for me at all.
I just don't go back to places I don't like. I find it far more effective than whining.
as I have stated twice before tipping is up to the customer
who's whining? I'm not from texas. I haven't been back, along with a lot of locals from what I understand. the buc-ee's 300 yards to the south will probably put it out of business before I can get back there.
no problem, I realize how difficult it is for you to answer any direct questions here.
great!!!
sure the franchisee was some thumper anyways!!
yeah I know you didn't like the answer.
not much I can do about that even if I were so inclined.
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.