El Paso police arrest man, 19, in teen's fatal shooting on Zaragoza Road
A 19-year-old Central Texas man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a teenager during a street altercation on Zaragoza Road last December, El Paso police officials said Monday.
Jalen Jamal Jennings was arrested on a murder charge by a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Killeen, Texas, and was booked into the El Paso County Jail on Friday after being transferred to El Paso, officials said.
Jennings is accused in a shooting that killed 16-year-old Fabian Gomez during an altercation between people in two vehicles on the afternoon of Dec. 21 on Zaragoza Road near Montwood Drive, police said.
Police responded to reports of a shooting after Gomez arrived with a gunshot wound at the Hospitals of Providence East Campus, officials said.
Jennings, who is listed on a jail log as residing in Killeen, is being held on a $1.25 million bond at the El Paso County Jail in Downtown.
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