The son of a Dominican politician was shot to death outside a Houston gas station Monday night in what police said was an apparent “targeted” drive-by shooting.
Houston police on Wednesday identified the man The man killed was Luis Alfredo Pacheco Rojas, 34, the son of Alfredo Pacheco, the speaker of the Dominican House of Representatives. The identity of another 29-year-old man who was shot and injured in the attack has not yet been released.
The incident began around 7 p.m. Monday, when Pacheco and three men in a black Cadillac Escalade stopped at a gas station in southeast Houston, authorities said.
The four entered the gas station and returned to the Escalade shortly after.
Deputy Police Chief Adrian Rodriguez initially said at a news conference. monday press conference at the time Four other men armed with what police called long guns arrived in two cars, a silver Dodge Charger and a silver Mercedes-Benz, and began firing at the Escalade.
On Tuesday, the police department said in a statement that there were only three attackers. Two of them were in the Dodge, and the other was a man. In Mercedes.
Pacheco was shot and later pronounced dead at a hospital, authorities said. The other man injured in the shooting was “conscious and breathing” at the hospital Monday night, Chief Rodriguez said.
“We are confident that these individuals who were in the Escalade were targeted,” Chief Rodriguez said Monday.
Detectives are investigating the motive for the shooting, the police department said. Authorities are also searching for the four gunmen who fled the gas station after the shooting. Chief Rodriguez described them as Hispanic men in their 20s or 30s.
Law enforcement officials on Tuesday released photos of the gunmen from surveillance footage.
in Posted on Tuesday’s XAlfredo Pacheco said his son lives abroad.
“Thank you from the bottom of my heart to my friends and colleagues for coming together during this difficult time,” he said in the post.
Alfredo Pacheco has been active in politics since the 1990s and since 2020 has headed the House of Representatives, which is part of the Dominican Republic’s legislative body. Since 2020 he has also served as a member of the National Judicial Council, which is responsible for the evaluation and selection of judges for the Supreme Court, High Electoral Court and Constitutional Court.
Hogla Enesia Perez I contributed a report from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
