12-year-old Texas boy arrested after deadly capturing at Sonic restaurant

KEENE, Texas — A 12-year-old boy has been arrested on a homicide warrant within the deadly capturing of a Sonic Drive-In worker in Texas, police mentioned.

Matthew Davis, 32, was shot and killed Saturday night time as he fought with Angel Gomez, 20, within the parking zone of the restaurant in Keene, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Dallas, police mentioned.

The boy was on the restaurant with Gomez, who was inflicting an unspecified disturbance within the parking zone, and shot Davis a number of occasions after taking a gun from Gomez’s car, in response to a police assertion.

Davis was taken to a hospital the place he was pronounced useless, police mentioned.

The boy used an AR-style rifle within the capturing, Police Chief James Kidd informed The Dallas Morning Information on Tuesday.

Each Gomez and the boy fled the scene, however Gomez later returned and was arrested on a homicide warrant and the boy, whose identify has not been launched, was discovered and arrested within the close by city of Rio Vista, police mentioned.

Court docket data don’t present that formal expenses have been filed.

The capturing comes within the wake of two mass shootings that has centered consideration on weapons in Texas.