Overview
- Officers found Yoduardy Sanchaez, 33, shot inside a vehicle near North Belt Line and Finley roads around 6 p.m. Wednesday, and he died at a hospital.
- Irving police arrested Kenneth Nixon, 62, about 9:30 p.m. and charged him with murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
- An arrest affidavit says witnesses reported Nixon driving erratically, pulling alongside at a red light, yelling, then firing multiple rounds into Sanchaez's car.
- Investigators say Nixon admitted to the shooting and told them he hid the gun in the ground behind a backyard pool deck.
- Police used street cameras and witness accounts to locate Nixon at his home about two miles from the scene, and they report no ongoing public threat while requesting tips to Detective S. Herring or the IPD tip line.