It's been more than three months since a Texas teen was arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting a “sympathetic” Sonic manager during an argument in which he tried to pay for food with counterfeit money.
Adia Roberson, 17, has been on Texas' 10 Most Wanted list and on the run since July 16, when she was captured in the parking lot of a Dallas apartment complex following a multi-agency manhunt. That's what it means. fox 4 news.
Roberson is accused of killing Daniel Shrewsberry on July 7 while working the night shift at the San Antonio Sonic.
Mr Shrewsbury, who was killed just days before his 34th birthday, reportedly got into an argument with Mr Roberson and two others after the group tried to buy food with counterfeit funds.
When the three men left the store, Shrewsberry tried to take a photo of their license plates, San Antonio police told the department.
Another suspect, Joshua Joseph, 27, who was arrested in August and charged with murder, allegedly told Sonic's manager that he would be shot if he tried to take a photo, Fox 4 reported. .
Shortly afterward, police said Roberson got out of his car, fired shots at Shrewsbury, and fled.
Shrewsbury was pronounced dead at the scene.
A witness who was at the drive-thru the night of the shooting said he heard three gunshots and saw employees run out of the fast food restaurant and say one of their co-workers had been shot.
“I was sitting in line, talking on the phone, and I heard the first sound, the first gunshot, but I didn't actually know what it was,” the witness said. told KENS5 In July.
“Then I heard two more gunshots and my mind was like, 'Okay, there's something going on here.' I tried to get out of there and I was basically scared.”
Shrewsbury, the eldest of three children, loved playing video games and spending time with his family when he wasn't at work, loved ones said after his death.
“He was a really good brother, not just to me, but to everyone,” said JoJo Shrewsbury, the Sonic employee's younger brother.
Mr Shrewsbury's sister, Jazmyn Robinson, wrote with emotion: facebook post Days after her death, her brother said, “No one deserved this to happen to me,'' and accused the suspects of cowards.
“They took my brother without hesitation, without a care for his family or loved ones. It's a very sad world we live in, ladies and gentlemen, like this. “I never thought I would lose my brother,” she wrote.
“I love you forever brother and always will, they took your body but they can't take your soul, the time we spent together” The memories will stay with me forever, I will never forget how great and hard you were – working brother.”
Roberson was also wanted on charges of forging government documents.
Roberson was booked into the Dallas County Jail on charges of murder and forgery after his arrest Tuesday.
Police believe Robinson flew around the state, fleeing from San Antonio to Austin and then arriving in Dallas, Fox 4 reported.
U.S. Marshals said a tip led a task force to track down the boy at an apartment complex in Dallas.
She is being held on $520,000 bail and will be transported to San Antonio to stand trial. It remains to be seen whether she will be tried as a juvenile.
However, a suspect under the age of 18 who is certified to be tried as an adult and sentenced to death in Texas “will receive an automatic life sentence with the possibility of parole after 40 years.” According to section 12.31 of the Act: texas criminal law.
