{"id":242453,"date":"2026-04-09T19:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242453\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:35:15","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-2024-murder-of-man-woman-and-killing-their-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242453\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads guilty to 2024 murder of man, woman and killing their dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock man pleaded guilty Thursday morning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2024\/09\/14\/2-custody-accused-killing-2-people-their-dog\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2024\/09\/14\/2-custody-accused-killing-2-people-their-dog\/\">murdering two people and killing their dog near Mackenzie Park back in September of 2024<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">27-year-old Justin Aleman pleaded guilty in the 364th District Court to two counts of murder and cruelty to a non-livestock animal and killing the animal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Judge William Eichman sentenced Aleman to 50 years in prison for each murder count and 10 years for animal cruelty. His sentences will run concurrently. He must serve half his sentence before he\u2019s eligible for parole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 10, officers responded to a shots fired call in the 300 block of Cesar E. Chavez Drive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Upon arrival, officers found Angel Aleman dead at the scene. Lydia Hernandez was taken to UMC where she died shortly after arriving. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cYou took my father from me forever. I will never hear his voice again. I will never see him again,\u201d daughter of Angel Aleman said during her victim impact statement to the court. \u201cYou took him from me without hesitation, and you have shown no remorse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2024\/10\/01\/2-men-indicted-deaths-man-woman-dog\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2024\/10\/01\/2-men-indicted-deaths-man-woman-dog\/\">24-year-old Joziah Aleman is also facing charges in connection with the double murder<\/a>. Joziah remains in the Lubbock County Detention Center on a $85,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock man pleaded guilty Thursday morning to murdering two people and killing their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[92707,294,13710,319,21353,168,1742,170,169,636,92706,7456],"class_list":{"0":"post-242453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-animal-cruetly","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-guilty-plea","11":"tag-kcbd","12":"tag-local-crime","13":"tag-lubbock","14":"tag-lubbock-crime","15":"tag-lubbock-headlines","16":"tag-lubbock-news","17":"tag-murder","18":"tag-murder-plea","19":"tag-sentencing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242453","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=242453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}