{"id":163997,"date":"2026-02-14T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163997\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:03:08","slug":"man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-in-double-homicide-at-irving-chick-fil-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163997\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to life in prison in double homicide at Irving Chick-fil-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A man has been sentenced to life in prison in the fatal shooting two employees at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2024\/06\/27\/man-arrested-after-allegedly-shooting-2-people-dead-in-irving-chick-fil-a\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2024\/06\/27\/man-arrested-after-allegedly-shooting-2-people-dead-in-irving-chick-fil-a\/\">an Irving Chick-fil-A in 2024<\/a>, the Dallas County district attorney\u2019s office said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Oved Bernardo Mendoza Argueta, 38, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">He was sentenced to life on the murder charge and an additional 20 years for each aggravated assault charge. He will serve the sentences consecutively and waived his right to appeal, court officials said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cWhile no sentence can undo the profound loss suffered by these families, this resolution ensures accountability and underscores that acts of violence in our community will be met with serious consequences,\u201d the district attorney\u2019s office wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2024\/06\/26\/two-killed-in-irving-chick-fil-a-shooting-suspect-at-large\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2024\/06\/26\/two-killed-in-irving-chick-fil-a-shooting-suspect-at-large\/\">occurred on June 26, 2024<\/a>, at the fast-food restaurant in the 5300 block of North MacArthur Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Employees Patricia Portillo, 49, and Brayan Godoy, 31, died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Argueta\u2019s spouse, who also worked at the Chick-fil-A, witnessed the incident and identified Argueta for police, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/2026\/02\/13\/the-legal-team-behind-the-109-billion-comerica-fifth-third-merger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The legal team behind the $10.9 billion Comerica-Fifth Third merger<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/we-recommend\/2026\/02\/13\/texas-attorney-general-democratic-primary-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We recommend in the Democratic primary for Texas attorney general<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been sentenced to life in prison in the fatal shooting two employees at an Irving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,815,294,581,2461,1266],"class_list":{"0":"post-163997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-dallas-county","14":"tag-homicide","15":"tag-irving"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163997","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=163997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}