A man who was 14 years old when he took part in a drive-by shooting that killed a woman on the West Side was sentenced to prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rene Joe Gonzales, 18, was sentenced to 50 years in prison Thursday after pleading no contest to two counts of murder. Gonzales killed 25-year-old Novita Brazil and, later, a 54-year-old man, while he was on the run. Both sentences will be served concurrently.<\/p>\n
Gonzales, who pleaded no contest as part of a plea deal, will have to serve half of his sentence before he is eligible for parole.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brazil was shot and killed Oct. 4, 2022, at a home in the 11400 block of Bald Mountain Drive.<\/p>\n
Authorities said Gonzales and three other teens committed a drive-by shooting at the home, and fired about 100 shots.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brazil was a college student and was married to a military member. The gunfire also wounded a 41-year-old woman who had been renting a room at the home while in town to see a San Antonio Spurs game.<\/p>\n
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said he believed the shooting was gang-related and that the teens had targeted the wrong home.<\/p>\n
After they posted bond, the pair cut off their ankle monitors and were on the run,\u00a0Salazar said.<\/p>\n
Details related to the other fatal shooting in 2023 were not immediately available due to his previous status as a minor.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was 14 years old when he took part in a drive-by shooting that killed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-232335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232335","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=232335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}