The son of a politician from the Dominican Republic was fatally shot outdoors a fuel station in Houston on Monday night time in what the police mentioned they believed was a “targeted” drive-by taking pictures.
The Houston Police Department on Wednesday recognized the person who was killed as Luis Alfredo Pacheco Rojas, 34, son of Alfredo Pacheco, the president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic. Another 29-year-old man who was injured by gunfire within the assault had not but been publicly recognized.
The incident started round 7 p.m. on Monday, when Mr. Pacheco and three males in a black Cadillac Escalade stopped at a fuel station in southeast Houston, in line with the Police Department.
The 4 males went contained in the fuel station, and instantly afterward they returned to the Escalade. It was at that time that 4 different males who had been armed with what the police referred to as lengthy weapons arrived in two automobiles — a silver Dodge Charger and a silver Mercedes-Benz — and started taking pictures on the Escalade, Assistant Chief Adrian Rodriguez of the Police Department mentioned at a information convention on Monday.
The Police Department clarified in a press release on Tuesday that two males had been within the Dodge, and that one other man had been within the Mercedes.
Mr. Pacheco was shot and later pronounced useless at a hospital, in line with the Police Department. The different man who was injured by gunfire was “conscious and breathing” at a hospital on Monday night time, Chief Rodriguez mentioned.
“I do believe that these individuals in the Escalade were targeted,” Chief Rodriguez mentioned on Monday.
Detectives had been working to find out a doable motive for the taking pictures, the Police Department mentioned. The authorities had been additionally trying to find the 4 gunmen who fled the fuel station after the taking pictures. Chief Rodriguez described them as Hispanic males of their 20s or 30s.
The Police Department on Tuesday launched pictures of the gunmen from surveillance footage.
In a publish on X on Tuesday, Alfredo Pacheco mentioned that his son had been residing overseas.
“I sincerely thank friends and colleagues for their solidarity in this difficult time,” he wrote within the publish.
Alfredo Pacheco has labored in politics because the Nineteen Nineties, and since 2020, he has led the Chamber of Deputies, a part of the legislative department within the Dominican Republic. He has additionally been a member of the National Council of the Judiciary since 2020, the physique liable for evaluating and electing judges of the Supreme Court of Justice, the Superior Electoral Court and the Constitutional Court.
Hogla Enecia Pérez contributed reporting from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
