{"id":323057,"date":"2026-06-04T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323057\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:06:08","slug":"corpus-christi-teen-faces-jury-trial-in-assault-and-attempted-capital-murder-case-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323057\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi teen faces jury trial in assault and attempted capital murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Corpus Christi teenager accused of trying to kill a police officer and threatening two other juveniles with a handgun is on trial this week in Nueces County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court records show Carlos Lee Suarez Jr., now 17, faces charges of attempted capital murder of a peace officer, two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a prohibited weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was transferred from juvenile court and will be tried as an adult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to court documents, prosecutors allege Suarez threatened two juveniles with a handgun on July 7, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prosecutors also allege Suarez attempted to shoot and kill a Corpus Christi police officer while trying to avoid arrest on Dec. 7, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a separate charge, prosecutors claim Suarez possessed a handgun modified with a &#8220;Glock switch,&#8221; a device that allows a firearm to fire automatically. Court records state the weapon was not registered as required by federal law.not the<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Nueces County judge later transferred the case from juvenile court to adult criminal court, citing the seriousness of the allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court records show Suarez was 15 years old at the time of the alleged offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The charges are allegations, and Suarez is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. Stay with 3NEWS for updates from the trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Corpus Christi teenager accused of trying to kill a police officer and threatening two other juveniles with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[115548,155,157,156,115549,24872,109844,5790,55738],"class_list":["post-323057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-carlos-lee-suarez-jr","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-corpus-christi-police-officer","tag-court-records","tag-juvenile-court","tag-nueces-county","tag-peace-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323057","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=323057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}