{"id":144294,"date":"2026-01-30T17:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144294\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:02:06","slug":"leeroy-trevino-jr-pleads-guilty-sentenced-for-2024-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144294\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeroy Trevino, Jr. pleads guilty, sentenced for 2024 murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 20-year-old Lubbock man pleaded guilty on Friday to the 2024 murder of Jose Gonzalez. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Judge Trey McClendon of the 137th District Court sentenced Leeroy Trevino, Jr. to 25 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Back on April 13, 2024, Police responded to reports of gunfire in the area of 44th Street and Avenue Q just after 8 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When officers arrived, they found 34-year-old Jose Gonzalez, who had been shot several times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2024\/04\/20\/3rd-suspect-custody-charged-murder-jose-gonzalez\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2024\/04\/20\/3rd-suspect-custody-charged-murder-jose-gonzalez\/\">3rd suspect in custody, charged in murder of Jose Gonzalez<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was loaded into an ambulance and taken to University Medical Center, where he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators believe Gonzalez was in a vehicle leaving the Executive Inn when he was shot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The suspects ran away after the shooting and Gonzalez exited his vehicle and walked back into a motel room, where officers found him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Trevino, Jr. was arrested and booked into the Lubbock County Detention Center on a murder charge on Wednesday, April 17 in the 200 block of 50th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 20-year-old Lubbock man pleaded guilty on Friday to the 2024 murder of Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3803,60527,36117,1524,168,170,169,97,636,49657,4437,32600],"class_list":["post-144294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-3803","tag-25-years","tag-guilty","tag-jail","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-plea","tag-prison","tag-sentenced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}