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Lubbock deputy cleared in deadly November shooting
Video that documented the shooting death of a domestic disturbance subject by a Lubbock County Sheriff s sergeant showed a textbook example of a justified police shooting, said Lubbock County Sheriff Kelly Rowe during a news conference Monday morning.
The 2 and 1/2 minute video, which showed the Nov. 26, 2020 encounter between Sgt. Ryan Stevens and Michael Anthony Pena, was released Monday - about a week after the Lubbock County District Attorney s Office concluded that the shooting, which was investigated by the Texas Rangers, was justified.
In a May 4 letter, chief prosecutor Barron Slack said the decision was based on video from Steven s body-worn camera, which clearly recorded the encounter.
Melissa Gatica took a few moments to choke back her tears before speaking to the man on the screen who shattered her family s life two years ago, telling him that they will fight to make sure he serves every bit of the 25-year prison sentence handed to him on Tuesday.
She told Joshua Guzman that her family remains angry at him for causing the vehicle crash that killed her uncle, 61-year-old Pedro Martinez Jr. On Monday April 19, our life was forever changed by your selfishness, recklessness and stupidity, Gatica told Guzman as she sat in a room at the Lubbock County District Attorney s Office, where she gave her victim impact statement.
Judge William Eichman issued a bond surrender arrest warrant for Erevia at the end of a hearing in the 364th District Court on a motion to revoke his bond filed by the Lubbock County District Attorney s Office.
Justices with Texas highest court on criminal matters upheld the 90-year prison sentence of a Lubbock businessman convicted more than three years ago of selling so-called synthetic marijuana out of his smoke shops.
In a 12-page opinion issued last week, justices found that testimony from an expert witness was sufficient to help jurors determine that a chemical structure found in synthetic marijuana seized from 54-year-old Anthony Carter s home and businesses were illegal under a 2015 revision of the state s drug statute prohibiting penalty group 2A, which used chemicals to mimic the effects of marijuana.
The opinion affirms Carter s Nov. 17, 2017, verdict and punishment, which included a $100,000 fine, from a jury trial in the 137th District Court.