1 year later, family remembers boy killed in drive-by shooting

HOUSTON – Family and close friends gathered Sunday at the gravesite to remember 6-year-old Moses Jimenez, who was killed in a drive-by shooting one year ago in southeast Houston.

They held hands and prayed and released balloons, all in honor of the first-grader who was taken too soon. 

"It still doesn't even feel like a year. It feels like it was a couple of months ago. It's been really hard," his mother, Elizabeth Garcia, said.

Garcia's two sons, 11-year-old Manuel and Moses, were asleep in their beds when bullets from a drive-by shooting went through the wall, striking both of them. Moses was killed.

"He took two breaths and passed away in my arms," Garcia said. "Every single night, that's what I remember."

It's been a tough year for the family, but a new baby has been a wonderful distraction. They welcomed little Morgan three months ago.

"I didn't even know I was pregnant (at the time)," Garcia said.

She said she found out shortly after the tragedy that she was pregnant. She can't believe how much Morgan looks like Moses, and knows he would have loved the little baby.

"He would complain to me and tell me he wanted a baby brother, that he wanted to be a big brother. He got his wish," Garcia said.

Moses' gravesite is marked with a Batman headstone, because that was his favorite super hero.

Alexis Caupio, 24, and Oscar Ollervides, 20, were arrested in connection with the shooting.

Investigators said Caupio admitted to being the trigger man and that Ollervides was driving.

Both men were charged with murder.