{"id":372733,"date":"2026-07-14T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372733\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:09:07","slug":"jury-convicts-man-in-2021-west-el-paso-deadly-mcdonalds-shooting-over-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372733\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury convicts man in 2021 West El Paso deadly McDonald&#8217;s shooting over drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 On Tuesday, an El Paso Jury has found Robron Lewis guilty of capital murder for his role in a deadly shooting during an alleged drug deal and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. <\/p>\n<p> The alleged drug deal gone wrong happened back in October of 2021, when police said Robron Lewis and another man from Las Cruces, identified as Tranquil Card, shot and killed a 22-year-old man at the westside McDonald&#8217;s located at 7900 N. Mesa St. near the Sam&#8217;s Club.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/i-grabbed-my-kids-and-dropped-to-the-ground-westside-shooting-witness-shares-experience?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;I grabbed my kids and dropped to the ground&#8217;: Westside shooting witness shares experience<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators believed Lewis and Card were meeting the victim to buy marijuana, but instead shot him multiple times and stole the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The incident triggered a lockdown at the University of Texas at El Paso and surrounding businesses as police searched for the suspects who had fled to campus. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/crime-news\/suspected-marijuana-dealer-shot-dead-by-2-men-at-mcdonalds-parking-lot?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Suspected marijuana dealer shot dead by 2 men at McDonald&#8217;s parking lot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lewis and Card were eventually found hiding in the stage area of one of the UTEP auditoriums. <\/p>\n<p>Criminal court records show Card&#8217;s trial is scheduled for September 21. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/person-shot-on-north-mesa-street-in-el-paso-thursday-night?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1 person dead, 2 others in custody following shooting at McDonald&#8217;s parking lot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 On Tuesday, an El Paso Jury has found Robron Lewis guilty of capital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-372733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372733","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=372733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}