Four suspects were arrested early Tuesday in connection with the fatal drive-by shooting of an 18-year-old woman last month in Old East Dallas.
Josue Daniel Moreno, 19, Oscar Manuel Castanon, 19, Jaquelyn Renae Gade Garcia, 20 and Jesus Garcia Castanon, 27, were booked into the Dallas County jail and charged with murder in the slaying of Crystal Rodriguez, Dallas police said. Their bail had not been set, and it was unclear whether they had attorneys.
Rodriguez was fatally shot in the back about 2:30 a.m. Jan. 11 while she slept at her home in the 3200 block of Reynolds Avenue, near Dolphin Road south of Interstate 30.
Her death angered police Chief Eddie García, who said in a tweet Tuesday that he went with the U.S. Marshals North Texas Task Force to witness the arrest.
He had said after the shooting that he intended to be present for the apprehension, adding that the suspect or suspects had appeared to shoot indiscriminately into one home “with no value of human life.”
“I’m glad I was there to witness it,” he wrote Tuesday.
Crystal Vital, Rodriguez’s mother, said last month that she found Rodriguez on the floor of her bedroom with blood everywhere. She said the gunfire was so loud she thought shots had been fired from inside the house.
“She was laying in her bed, she was sleeping,” Vital said through sobs. “I don’t understand why someone would do this; why would you want to harm me or my family?”
She described her daughter as a “good girl” who graduated from H. Grady Spruce High School in Pleasant Grove last spring and had dreams of becoming a flight attendant.
A motive in the slaying was not immediately clear Tuesday.
