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Garland police charged Ezequiel Hernandez with murder after a man was shot dead outside a business early Saturday.
Police said the shooting happened around 2 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, in the 500 block of West Oates Road after an argument inside the business earlier in the night, CBS News Texas reported. Hernandez, 31, was found with a white Ford F-250 at a home in Mesquite and taken into custody.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
Police are describing a familiar pattern: an argument inside, closing time, and a shooting in the parking lot. The case got a fast arrest because investigators had a truck description to follow. What we have not heard yet is the defense side, or even the victim's name, which police are holding until his family is notified.
Ezequiel Hernandez, 31, is charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a man outside a business in Garland, Texas, early Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, the Garland Police Department said, according to CBS News Texas.
Officers were called around 2 a.m. to the 500 block of West Oates Road, where they found a man with a gunshot wound, CBS News Texas reported. Paramedics responded, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators said Hernandez and the victim had argued inside the business earlier in the night. After the business closed, police allege, Hernandez shot the man in the parking lot and drove away in a white Ford F-250.
Garland police said the truck and Hernandez were later located at a residence in the 1300 block of Summit Street in neighboring Mesquite, where he was taken into custody. He has been charged with murder, and bond had not been set at the time of CBS News Texas' report.
Police are withholding the victim's name until his next of kin are notified, and have not said what the argument was about or what kind of business it was. The investigation is ongoing. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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