{"id":3638,"date":"2025-10-14T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3638\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:48:07","slug":"lubbock-man-gets-10-years-in-prison-for-accidental-shooting-that-killed-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3638\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock man gets 10 years in prison for accidental shooting that killed teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: The above video shows the top headlines from the morning of October 14, 2025.<\/p>\n

LUBBOCK, Texas<\/a> \u2014 Gregory Sanchez, 23, pleaded guilty to Manslaughter on Tuesday in connection with the deadly shooting that took the life of Manuel Rodriguez, 15, back in June of 2020. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. <\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\t\tTimeline of charges against ex-Lubbock High coach spans nearly 2 decades\t<\/a><\/p>\n

On June 8, 2020, officers responded to the 1700 block of 22nd Street for shots fired. Police found Rodriguez with a gunshot wound. He was taken to University Medical Center, where he later died. Police described the shooting as unintentional, EverythingLubbock.com previously reported. <\/p>\n

\"\"Booking image from LCDC<\/p>\n

In a separate incident, after he was behind bars, Sanchez was also charged with sexually assaulting a child in 2019.<\/a> He was also accused of an unrelated charge of stalking. Those charges were dismissed as part of Sanchez\u2019s plea agreement. <\/p>\n

Sanchez will receive 978 days of jail credit for time already spent behind bars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Note: The above video shows the top headlines from the morning of October 14, 2025. LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","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=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}