Robstown Police Chief Mike Tamez said a 17-year-old is the fourth and final suspect arrested in the November killing of a 14-year-old in Robstown.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 All four suspects are now in custody and indicted in the November shooting of a 14-year-old in Robstown<\/a>, Police Chief Mike Tamez announced<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n 17-year-old Gauge Lopez was arrested April 1, marking what Tamez called the final step in a months-long investigation into the death of Shawn Sanchez.<\/p>\n \u201cToday, our Criminal Investigations Division detectives culminated the investigation with the arrest of our last suspect,\u201d Tamez said.<\/p>\n The Nueces County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed Lopez is being held on charges of capital murder, robbery and assault.<\/p>\n According to Tamez, four suspects have now been indicted for capital murder: 23-year-old Dominic Guzman, 19-year-old Elias Rivera, 17-year-old Gauge Lopez and one juvenile.<\/p>\n The case stems from the November 2025 shooting death of Sanchez outside the Figueroa Square Apartments. Police have previously said the killing was a retaliatory act tied to an earlier violent confrontation involving teenagers.<\/p>\n Tamez described the investigation as \u201clong and very tedious and detailed,\u201d saying detectives worked for months to build probable cause alongside the Nueces County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n \u201cPlease know that our detectives have worked tirelessly to establish the necessary probable cause,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Tamez also credited multiple agencies for their role in the case, including the U.S. Marshals Service, which assisted in Lopez\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n \u201cHopefully, working side-by-side with our Nueces County District Attorney\u2019s Office, we will be able to receive justice for the Sanchez family,\u201d Tamez said.<\/p>\n He closed the announcement with a message to the community.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope you rest a little easier– knowing that we have our fourth capital murder suspect in custody,\u201d Tamez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robstown Police Chief Mike Tamez said a 17-year-old is the fourth and final suspect arrested in the November…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-231994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231994","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=231994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}