{"id":238263,"date":"2026-04-07T05:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238263\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:05:13","slug":"40-year-old-man-arrested-following-sunday-night-shooting-at-mackenzie-park-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238263\/","title":{"rendered":"40-year-old man arrested following Sunday night shooting at Mackenzie Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; One person is in jail following a shooting on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lubbock police said officers were called to the area of Parkway Dr. and Cesar Chavez Dr. for a civil disturbance just before 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When they arrived, officers found 19-year-old Coby Gonzalez with a gunshot to his hand. He was taken to UMC by ambulance with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After its initial investigation, LPD said 40-year-old Margarito Sarmiento Espinoza got into an argument with someone, who is not named right now, when he then punched 39-year-old Romana Cuellar in the face.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"40-year-old Margarito Sarmiento\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DOHGUJWL3NETFIOGZPJUB45FVE.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>40-year-old Margarito Sarmiento(Lubbock County Detention Center)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After that happened, Sarmiento pulled out a gun and shot Gonzalez, who was a bystander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sarmiento was arrested and booked into the Lubbock County Detention Center on one charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one charge of assault causing bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He is also being held on an Immigration Customs Enforcement detainer. His bond is set at a total of $45,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; One person is in jail following a shooting on Easter Sunday. Lubbock police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-238263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238263","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=238263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}