{"id":311757,"date":"2026-05-28T02:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/311757\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T02:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:15:18","slug":"texas-man-sentenced-for-role-in-kidnapping-plot-charlottesville-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/311757\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man sentenced for role in kidnapping plot, Charlottesville shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) &#8211; A Texas man responsible for a deadly shootout in Charlottesville\u2019s Belmont neighborhood three years ago was sentenced Tuesday, May 26, to 10 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Twenty-one-year-old Jordan Perez of Lackhart, Texas, conspired with others to kidnap, transport, and hold multiple victims at gunpoint for ransom that culminated in a deadly 2023 shootout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Perez, along with 26-year-old Ricardo Ordaz of Cedar Creek, Texas, was smuggling an illegal immigrant to Charlottesville when a shootout occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ordaz was sentenced to more than 18 years in prison in January for his role in the conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a story idea? Send us your news tip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.29news.com\/2026\/05\/27\/texas-man-sentenced-role-kidnapping-plot-charlottesville-shooting\/mailto:wvirnewsdesk@gray.tv\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WVIR. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) &#8211; A Texas man responsible for a deadly shootout in Charlottesville\u2019s Belmont neighborhood three years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112363,11861,14211,672,95,27,29,28,112362],"class_list":["post-311757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-belmont","tag-fatal","tag-gun","tag-police","tag-shooting","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-wvir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311757","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=311757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}