2 teens in custody after fight at Garland gas station led to fatal shooting, police say

An 18-year-old and a 15-year-old are in custody after a fight at a Garland gas station Thursday afternoon led to a fatal shooting, police say.

Officers were called about 1:30 p.m. to the gas station’s parking lot in the 1800 block of West Kingsley Road, where a fight had been reported. Witnesses told police that the people involved shot at each other before driving off in two vehicles.

A short time later, police were called to a strip mall about 2½ miles away in the 1900 block of South First Street. Two shooting victims had arrived there in an SUV, police said.

One of them, 18-year-old Jairo Sait Saavedra, was treated at a hospital and released. The second, a male whose identity has not been released, was pronounced dead at the strip mall.

Officers later learned that a 15-year-old shooting victim at a Dallas hospital also had been involved in the incident, police said.

Police said surveillance footage from the gas station showed people meeting and then fighting. Saavedra and the 15-year-old each grabbed handguns and exchanged fire, police said.

The 15-year-old shot Saavedra and the other victim, police said. Authorities don’t believe either teen was shooting in self-defense.

Saavedra was booked into the Garland jail on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. It was unclear whether he had an attorney.

The 15-year-old, whose identity was not released, was being held in juvenile detention on a murder charge.