The accused driver Richard Acosta Jr., 33, in connection with the triple murder in a Texas shooting was arrested Tuesday, the Garland Police Department said.
Richard Acosta Jr.was being held on $1 million bonds, the Garland Police Department said.
The shooting happened Sunday night in the Dallas suburb of Garland and was captured on surveillance video, the Garland Police Department said.
Authorities said Acosta drove himself and the shooter in a Dodge Ram pickup truck away from the Sunday shooting at a gas station in Garland, Texas, surveillance footage shows. Footage shows Acosta entering the gas station before the shooting.
On Tuesday, city police also said the 14-year-old boy who was initially identified as a suspect by Garland authorities Monday was released to his family and is “not being charged at this time.”
The 14-year-old cooperated with investigators and was released due to new information investigators acquired after Acosta turned himself in.
“Detectives learned that the 14-year-old male who was taken into custody yesterday has intimate knowledge of the shooting and he is cooperating with the investigation,” police said in a statement.
“Based on new information in the investigation, the 14-year-old is not being charged at this time and has been released to his family.”
The investigation on the shooting death of three and injury of one at a convenience store on 12/26 is active, police said.
Police identified the three slain teens as 14-year- old Xavier Gonzalez, 16-year- old Ivan Noyala, and 17-year- old Rafael Garcia. The 15-year-old that was transported to the hospital is in stable condition.
Police said that the shooting appears to be in retaliation to a previous disturbance and was believed to be a targeted attack on one or more of the persons inside the store.
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