Sentenced: 12YO Boy Charged With Fatally Shooting Texas Sonic Drive-In Worker

[Sugar Cookie]

A 12-year-old boy has been charged with murder for allegedly gunning down a Sonic restaurant worker in Texas with an assault rifle.

The deadly confrontation at the Sonic Drive-In in Keene began after 32-year-old employee Mathew Davis spotted a 20-year-old man urinating in the parking lot Saturday night, NBC-DFW reported, citing police.

Davis approached the man relieving himself, identified as Angel Gomez, and a physical fight ensued, the report said.

During the scuffle, the 12-year-old boy who was sitting inside Gomez’s car allegedly fired six rounds from an assault rifle, striking Davis.

Davis — the father of a boy not much younger than his alleged killer — was airlifted to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

Gomez and the boy fled, but were arrested hours later, the report said.

The pair has been charged with murder.

12-year-old boy charged with fatally shooting Texas Sonic Drive-In worker

“The franchisee is cooperating fully with local authorities as they conduct their investigation.”

nypost.com

The 12YO needs to be charged as an adult and locked up in a cage for the rest of his life with his partner, Angel.

The 12YO's picture should be released so that everyone knows he is a wild animal that should be shot on site.

Donate to Funeral for Leigh Anne's son Matthew Davis, organized by Crewmembers of Lynn Cooke

With sad hearts, we come to you today to ask for your help… Crewmembers of Lynn Cooke needs your support for Funeral for Leigh Anne's son Matthew Davis

www.gofundme.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A 13-year-old Texas boy convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a Sonic Drive-In employee has been sentenced to 12 years incarceration, authorities said.

A judge issued the sentence Tuesday following days of evidentiary hearings over what punishment the boy should face in the rare murder case against a child, according to Amy Pardo of the Johnson County Attorney's office. He will start the sentence in the custody of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department and he may later be transferred to the state's adult prison system.

The boy, whom authorities have not identified by name, faced sentences ranging from probation to 40 years behind bars. In October, a jury found him to have engaged in delinquent conduct, the juvenile equivalent of a guilty verdict, in the murder case over the May shooting of a Sonic employee who had a fight with his uncle.

The child's lawyer, Seth Fuller, said the yearslong prison sentence "matches the 'eye for an eye' sentiment I have come to expect from rural Texas counties."


"While I certainly understand the reasoning behind it, when I look at the wealth of scientific evidence of even just Texas juvenile incarceration, I do not think it makes society safer, but more dangerous," Fuller said in an email.

Police have said the boy, then 12, shot Matthew Davis several times with an AR-style rifle in the parking lot of the restaurant in Keene, about 40 miles southwest of Dallas. He got the gun out of his uncle's vehicle and opened fire after Davis confronted the uncle about his "disorderly conduct" outside the Sonic and the two men began to fight, police said.

The boy's uncle, Angel Gomez, was also arrested after the shooting and later indicted on a charge of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. The case is pending.

13-year-old Texas boy sentenced to prison for murder in fatal shooting at a Sonic Drive-In

Authorities say a 13-year-old Texas boy convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a Sonic Drive-In employee has been sentenced to 12 years incarceration.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[cubby]

"While I certainly understand the reasoning behind it, when I look at the wealth of scientific evidence of even just Texas juvenile incarceration, I do not think it makes society safer, but more dangerous,"

Is he saying a 12yo cannot form intent when shooting someone with a rifle from just a few feet away? He can and he did and he did it deliberately. Has nothing to do with an eye for an eye, because in that case he'd be on death row.

 

[Symmachus]

The child's lawyer, Seth Fuller, said the yearslong prison sentence "matches the 'eye for an eye' sentiment I have come to expect from rural Texas counties."

Interesting. Is that approach actually a bad thing?