Gonzalo Leon, the Houston man accused of fatally shooting 11-year-old Julian Guzman during a ding-dong-ditch prank, appeared before Harris County District Judge Emily DeToto on Thursday, where his request for a reduced bond was denied.
Defense attorneys for Gonzalo Leon Jr., the man accused of fatally shooting 11-year-old Julian Guzman during a “ding-dong ditch” prank, are asking prosecutors to turn over key evidence, including Leon’s cellphone, which they say was seized without a timely warrant.
The suspect accused of fatally shooting 11-year-old Julian Guzman last month has been indicted for murder.
A defense attorney for the man charged after the death of an 11-year-old boy, who was fatally shot while playing a ding dong ditch prank in Houston’s Eastside in August, is asking for a case file on an unlawful carrying of a weapon charge against an older cousin of the victim on scene the same day, KPRC 2 has learned.
We also learned that the suspect served in the Texas National Guard for more than four years.
Court documents have revealed more information about a homeowner who was charged with murder after allegedly shooting 11-year-old Julian Guzman, who knocked on his house’s door and ran away.
Police say a Houston man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy after a prank in which the child knocked on the door of a home and ran away.
Investigators said Gonzalo Leon, 42, has been charged with shooting 11-year-old Julian Guzman, who witnesses said was last seen running from a house, after ringing the doorbell, "just prior to suffering a gunshot wound."