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Victor Alonso Pena was booked into the Dallas County jail Tuesday and faces a murder charge in the death of 21-year-old Angel Juarez.
Officers were called about 2:20 a.m. Oct. 23 to the 2700 block of Howland Street, where they found Juarez shot. He was taken to a hospital and died two days later.
According to an arrest-warrant affidavit, Juarez and Pena, who knew each other and “had problems in the past,” had separately gone to Tate’s bar the night of the shooting. Pena and his companions left first, followed by Juarez and two of his relatives, police said.
As Juarez’s group stood in a parking lot, Pena drove past in a red Cadillac sedan and shot at them, the affidavit says. Juarez and his relatives returned fire.
Juarez was struck in the neck, police said, and two other people were shot and suffered injuries that were not life-threatening.
A witness identified Pena as the man who shot Juarez, police said.
In addition to the murder charge, Pena faces two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and his total bail is $700,000. He remained in custody Wednesday and did not have an attorney listed in court records.
In 2007, Pena pleaded guilty to a fatal shooting that took place in May 2004 — when he was 15 — court records show. Details about the case were not immediately available.
He was sentenced to seven years of deferred-adjudication probation, but that probation was revoked in 2010 after he was arrested on a weapons charge and failed to meet with his probation officer. Pena was sent to prison, where he served about four and a half years before his release in June 2015.