{"id":172986,"date":"2026-02-20T15:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/172986\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:12:14","slug":"arlington-man-sentenced-to-30-years-for-vape-pen-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/172986\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington man sentenced to 30 years for vape pen killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  alt=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\" title=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters<\/p>\n<p>                Pexels<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old man pled guilty this week to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article289578948.html\">a 2024 homicide over vape pens<\/a> and was sentenced to 30 years in prison, Tarrant County district attorney Phil Sorrells said.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Nunn admitted to killing 18-year-old Jesus Galarza in Arlington on June 24, 2024, Sorrells said.<\/p>\n<p>Nunn and Galarza arranged to meet that day for what police described as \u201chigh-risk drug activity,\u201d the Star-Telegram previously reported. When Galarza arrived, Nunn pulled a firearm and began shooting at his vehicle, then left the scene before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger in the vehicle was wounded, and Galarza died two days later from a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/288629615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771600334_552_LillieDavidson-Profile Cropped.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Lillie Davidson\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/288629615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lillie Davidson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Lillie Davidson is a breaking news reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She graduated from TCU in 2025 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism, is fluent in Spanish, and can complete a crossword in five minutes.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters Pexels An 18-year-old man pled guilty this week to a 2024 homicide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[69883,150,152,69879,151,69881,69882,69880],"class_list":["post-172986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-2024-shooting","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-homicide","tag-arlington-news","tag-joshua-nunn","tag-tarrant-county-sentencing","tag-vape-pen-killing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172986","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=172986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}