{"id":433097,"date":"2026-09-11T19:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/433097\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:06:17","slug":"gustavo-dominguez-sentenced-to-90-years-in-prison-in-young-park-shooting-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/433097\/","title":{"rendered":"Gustavo Dominguez sentenced to 90 years in prison in Young Park shooting case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Las Cruces, N.M. (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Gustavo Dominguez has been sentenced to 90 years in prison for his role in the 2025 Young Park mass shooting, according to Do\u00f1a Ana County District Attorney Fernando Macias.<\/p>\n<p>Dominguez, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, will be eligible for parole after serving 25 years. <\/p>\n<p>However, Macias said parole eligibility does not guarantee his release from prison.<\/p>\n<p>A Do\u00f1a Ana County jury convicted Dominguez in July on three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting at an unsanctioned car meet at Young Park.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting killed Dominick Estrada, Andrew Madrid and Jason Gomez. <\/p>\n<p>Dominguez was the fourth and final defendant convicted in the case, following guilty verdicts against Tomas Rivas, Nathan Rivas and Josiah Ontiveros.<\/p>\n<p>During Dominguez\u2019s trial, prosecutors argued he repeatedly fired a handgun after any immediate threat had ended. <\/p>\n<p>His defense attorney, Herman Ortiz, maintained prosecutors had not proven Dominguez was responsible for the three deaths and said he would explore appeal options.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/jury-convicts-gustavo-dominguez-on-three-first-degree-murder-counts-in-young-park-case?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jury convicts Gustavo Dominguez on three first-degree murder counts in Young Park case<\/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":"Las Cruces, N.M. (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Gustavo Dominguez has been sentenced to 90 years in prison for his role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-433097","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\/433097","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=433097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}