A Katy man was sentenced after he shot and killed a man involved in a motel shoot-out in 2020.
Ramon Carlos Hernandez, 42, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing 26-year-old Darren Price outside a motel near Highway 290 and Tidwell where a shoot-out took place between multiple people on April 11, 2020, says Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg.
"When people show up with a plan to start shooting and someone gets killed, that is murder," Ogg said. "Gun violence leads to more gun violence, and the consequences for using guns to settle a score usually means decades in prison."According to the DA's office, Hernandez went with a group of armed men to a three-story extended-stay motel in the 5900 block of Guhn Road after an argument between guests.air walkways along the outside of the building.
The DA Office stated Hernandez continued shooting as he made his way downstairs from the third-floor shootout. As he got into his friend's tow truck, he shot at the back of Price's Corolla, shattering the back windshield and hitting Price in the back of the head, killing him.According to Assistant District Attorney Ryan Volkmer, who prosecuted the case Houston police officers responded to the scene at the motel and the murder scene on the road nearby.
Volkmer said Hernandez admitted to firing a shot at another moving vehicle, shown at trial to be about 200 feet away, headed in the other direction."It was a confrontation that had been brewing all day between at least six people that ended up becoming a shoot-out turned into a deadly car getaway," Volkmer said. "The defendant made a decision to fire at people, hotel rooms, and then vehicles, eventually killing the victim, who was not part of the shoot-out.
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