Overview
- Police say Evan Gabriel Martinez, 18, shot 15-year-old Elijah Donovan Herrera in the back early Oct. 13 as they walked near Dos Vistas and Arena.
- Herrera was hospitalized in El Paso with serious injuries not believed to be life-threatening, according to investigators.
- Affidavits state messages on Herrera’s phone detailed plans to meet in an alley by Parkhill Drive to burglarize a friend’s home for firearms.
- The messages indicated the back door would be left open and that the pair intended to sell any guns they stole, court documents say.
- Officers arrested Martinez at his Agate Street residence, recovering clothing and a 9 mm handgun; he refused to speak with police and is held without bond at the Doña Ana County Detention Center while on probation.