A Houston driver involved in a 2018 drive-by shooting that left a 19-year-old boy dead was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.
Angelo Alexander Perez, 23, was convicted of murder by a Harris County jury and sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday after a seven-day trial.
“Planning and carrying out a drive-by shooting is premeditated gun violence that often ends, as in this case, in devastating loss of life,” Ogg said. “Using a weapon to settle scores is never acceptable.”
According to police, Perez was driving his brother’s girlfriend’s girlfriend’s white Chrysler 300 sedan just after midnight on May 7, 2018. Perez, and another man who has not yet been identified, had planned to fight with a group of young men. they knew from their area around Acres Homes.
After the planned fight did not take place, 19-year-old Joseph Juarez and several other people stood on the driveway of a home in the 2000 block of Barnsley, north of Acres Homes.
According to the investigation, Pérez drove the sedan through the neighborhood several times and, during the last pass, the gunman fired shots into the roof of the Chrysler from the passenger side, hitting and killing Juárez.
Pérez fled driving the vehicle.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Unit investigated and arrested Perez.
Assistant District Attorney Sean Kozar-King indicted Perez along with Assistant District Attorney Garrett Moore.
“Through the evidence presented at trial, we have been able to show that the white Chrysler was the car used in the shooting, that the defendant was driving that car and that he was an active participant in the drive-by,” Kozar-King said. . “It was important to get justice for this victim and her family.”
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the unit at 713-274-9100 or Houston Crime Stoppers at 713-222-8477.
