In a highly unusual case from Keene, Texas, authorities sentenced Ashley Marmolejo Gomez to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder. According to her conviction, she armed her 12-year-old nephew, who then fatally shot a Sonic Drive-In employee during a confrontation over public urination in the restaurant’s parking lot.
The tragic incident occurred in May 2023 when a Sonic employee caught the boy’s uncle, Angel Gomez, urinating in the Sonic parking lot. When employee Matthew Davis asked him to stop, a physical altercation broke out. Police allege that Marmolejo Gomez, who was in a vehicle with other children, handed her nephew an AR-style rifle and directed him to intervene. The nephew then exited the car and fatally shot Davis. The group initially fled the scene but later returned and confessed.
