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A 23-year-old man is behind bars in connection with a fatal September shooting in east Oak Cliff.
Pedro Miguel Casillas faces a murder charge in the death of Tyler Wengert. He was booked into the Dallas County jail last week.
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Wengert, 30, was shot about 3 a.m. Sept. 11 in the 400 block of the northbound Interstate 35E service road, near East Eighth Street. Police were called about 45 minutes later when a passer-by found him unresponsive along a sidewalk, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
A witness reported hearing a single gunshot followed by a vehicle speeding off, police said.
Police said in an arrest-warrant affidavit that surveillance footage showed a man at a nearby gas station putting gas in a white Lincoln Town Car with one headlight burned out. The video showed the car drive away, make a U-turn and approach Wengert, who was walking on the sidewalk, then slow down at the spot where the shooting took place, the affidavit says.
After police released footage from the gas station in early January, two people called authorities with information that led them to identify Casillas as a suspect, according to the affidavit. A third person told police that Casillas owned the car and had said he was involved in a fatal shooting but wasn’t the gunman, the affidavit says.
Police said the footage showed a second person in the Lincoln’s passenger seat, making it possible that Casillas was driving but didn’t shoot Wengert.
Casillas remained in custody Thursday, with bail set at $150,000.