Richard Montez was third man charged and convicted in the shooting deaths of Angel Gebara, 14, and Benito Gallegos, 69, at a West Side housing project in February 2018.
– It took more than four-and-a-half years for Richard Montez’s case to go to trial but only four-and-a-half hours on Thursday for a jury to convict him of capital murder.
Gebara’s mother, Angela Medina, covered her face as the guilty verdict was read and tearfully confronted Montez with her grief during the victim impact statements. Juan Martinez testified for the prosecution and said Montez had used methamphetamine “more than a few” hours earlier and was jumpy and paranoid. The older man had a bag of weapons that he passed out, too, Martinez said.
Martinez testified that Montez said, “We have to do something. We have to take them out, or they might come back,” and shots quickly followed, though he did not know if Montez or his cousin fired first.Police later found a bullet hole in the back of the vehicle in which Gallegos had been a passenger. Though he was initially reported to have only been grazed, Gallegos’s family says he collapsed when he arrived at University Hospital, and a bullet was found to be stuck in his head.
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