{"id":258100,"date":"2026-04-20T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258100\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:53:09","slug":"lubbock-murder-suspect-arrested-after-fatal-shooting-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258100\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Murder Suspect Arrested After Fatal Shooting Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Lubbock was arrested over the weekend following a convenience store fight that led to\u00a0the shooting death of a 37-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Fatal Shooting in Central Lubbock<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, April 17, the Lubbock Police Department (LPD) responded to a call of shots fired at a convenience store on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/5900+Avenue+P,+Lubbock,+TX+79412\/@33.5402174,-101.8531201,3a,75y,339.92h,97.49t\/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZQjkz7hvvF4IAUErhzinLw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-7.49215117691206%26panoid%3DZQjkz7hvvF4IAUErhzinLw%26yaw%3D339.9195974065707!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x86fe6d07b3b8c919:0xe569bfc7df423afc!8m2!3d33.5403413!4d-101.8532615?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">5900 block of Avenue P<\/a> at 10:36 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived on the scene, they located <a href=\"http:\/\/chrome-extension:\/\/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj\/https:\/\/ci.lubbock.tx.us\/storage\/images\/Fl47aBI3hQgXXnLRLpOMftiXLvgpeSEarTY9eU1w.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">37-year-old Jonathan Trevino<\/a> with a gunshot wound. He also suffered several serious injuries, requiring an EMS transport to University Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was immediately opened where it was discovered that Trevino and another man, <a href=\"https:\/\/publicrecords.lubbockcounty.gov\/JailRoster\/?1QDNyQjN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">41-year-old Tommy Rios<\/a>, were inside the convenience store, later exiting as they began to engage in a verbal altercation.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Rios, Lubbock County Detention Center<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Rios, Lubbock County Detention Center<\/p>\n<p>The argument escalated to such a point that Rios produced a firearm and shot Trevino before fleeing the area.<\/p>\n<p>Together with the help of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lubbocksheriff.com\/tagops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lubbock Texas Anti-Gang Center<\/a>, surveillance footage of the area was obtained, and Rios was located and arrested at 2 o&#8217;clock in the afternoon the next day on April 18.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Rios was <a href=\"http:\/\/chrome-extension:\/\/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj\/https:\/\/ci.lubbock.tx.us\/storage\/images\/Fl47aBI3hQgXXnLRLpOMftiXLvgpeSEarTY9eU1w.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sent to the Lubbock County Detention Center<\/a> on a $300,000 bond. He was booked on one count of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Recent Lubbock Shooting<\/p>\n<p>This shooting death comes just days after LPD checked on the wellbeing of a suicidal man at the City of Lubbock Cemetery on April 13.<\/p>\n<p>This was where police approached 52-year-old Steven Chad Myers was sitting in his vehicle. As officers\u00a0were speaking\u00a0with him, Myers reached for a gun, prompting the cops to open fire. You can read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/kfyo.com\/update-on-lubbock-police-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">right here on KFYO.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>10 Common Laws Broken in Texas<\/p>\n<p>Here are laws that are frequently broken in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/knue.com\/author\/billyjenkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billy Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>101 Legal Terms in Texas All Citizens Should Know<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in Lubbock was arrested over the weekend following a convenience store fight that led to\u00a0the shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,2630],"class_list":{"0":"post-258100","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","11":"tag-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258100","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=258100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}