Posted on 09/03/2025 4:52:18 PM PDT by Morgana
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A 42-year-old man is charged with murder after he allegedly shot an 11-year-old boy who was playing the "ding dong ditch" game with his friends Saturday night.
Gonzalo Leon Jr. is accused of fatally shooting 11-year-old Julian Guzman on Saturday night.
Court records show that Guzman, his cousin, and some other friends were at a relative's house on Racine Street attending a birthday party. The boys reportedly got bored and decided to play the "ding dong ditch" game around the neighborhood.
Guzman and his cousin were ringing doorbells of homes in the area and running away, records state. A witness said Guzman had run to Leon's home, rang the doorbell several times, and began to run away.
Court records show that's when Leon allegedly walked out of his house, onto a public street, pointed a gun, and fired.
"There was no weapon displayed (by the boy)," Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said. "No theft of property, the young man was shot in the back, on a public street. It's a murder."
Julian was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Sunday.
Leon was initially detained by police Saturday night. Records show he would not talk to the police and asked for a lawyer. Among several reasons that prosecutors could not immediately charge Leon was that the eyewitness did not identify him as the shooter.
"One of the initial issues is that we had a negative ID," Teare said. "But that's explained in any case where you just had a young man who just watched his cousin get gunned down, and show him 6 pictures to identify somebody."
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wardaddy Please don’t think I’m glad the kid is dead, I think this is terrible.
I think the parents or parent? should be charged with neglect or some kind of child abuse. I said that out of anger and sometimes I don’t have a speed bump between my brain and mouth.
I think the parents are to blame for the child’s bad behavior here and that is why the kid is dead.
This could be a binary thread
Meanies versus we softies
Owners of boys like me with 3 and those childless or with perfect little house on the prairie daughters
Real speak
Hell plea to serious manslaughter and do at least 7 in a bad joint and his family suffers and the kids dead and his family suffering
Losing deal all around no winners
I know exactly what you are saying and I agree.
I just feel the parents should be charged with neglect of a child.
In some states they are doing this. When a kid messes up the law goes after the parents now.
Recently a mom was arrested because her kid, same age as this one was out in the streets doing stuff.
Nurto Mohamed here she is:
It stems from Mohamed’s 11-year-old son being involved in multiple felony and misdemeanor crimes, police said. The department said since the beginning of 2025, the child was identified as being involved in a least four different “felony acts and more misdemeanors.”
Police said one of those crimes includes a robbery.
The department noted that her son and a 12-year-old were involved in a burglary that caused damage to several vehicles, stealing two of them and driving around the city causing more damage to the vehicles and property.”
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“I did it once as a kid with a friend. It wasn’t at night. The neighbors saw us and I got a spanking from my parents.
I never did it again.”
you can’t spank kids today and majority have never been told “no” in their lives. Go watch any of the cop body cam videos on youtube, that is the first time they are told “no” and they react like toddlers having a meltdown.
Yes, everyone is well aware, or should be, the general view of our judicial system on that.
But it needs a rethink. Burglars, home intruders, robbers, rapists, carjackers et al, generally speaking, they’ve both done this before, and more importantly they’ll do it again.
Shooting them as they flee is essentially a public service, helping to achieve a lower recidivism rate, taking out the trash so to speak.
Unfortunately, many would use an absence of witnesses to even scores or perform murders of convenience or racial "cleansing".
Shooting a kid in the back dead for a door knocking prank as he was fleeing is not a public service. The punishment the shooter meted out was the death penalty for an 11 year old.
Not justified and flat out stupid.
I agree the parents should be charged with neglect. That child should not be on the streets at 11:00 PM.
This shooter did not think and acted out of knee jerk anger without thinking of the consequences.
He is going to find out and wish he had never made this fatal error of judgment.
I said frequently.
Not always.
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Shooting a kid in the back dead for a door knocking prank as he was fleeing is not a public service.
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If I’d said that, you might have a point. Good try, though.
It sure came off as though you said that. I wasn’t “trying” anything.
I just feel the parents should be charged with neglect of a child.
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I don’t.
It would be stupid to hold the parents of Guzman responsible for Gonzalo gunning down their kid.
Also,
What should we charge Gonzalo’s parents with?
“Good question; but I doubt being inebriated would cut him much slack in the shooting of a kid.”
I was more interested in what flipped him put. He’s going down... of that I have no doubt.
Heck, I have misdeliveries by USPS to my house occasionally, one time it was a large box. So I took it up to the Post Office and went to the counter and said this was misdelivered to my house. Which was about 5 miles from my house and the Post Office said “why didn’t you take it over there?, I responded yo the goof “because I don’t want to get caught with a box in my hand in there yard and them wondering what the heck I was doing with their mail, getting this package to their doorstep is your job!”
“Shooting them as they flee is essentially a public service, helping to achieve a lower recidivism rate...”
The recidivism rate for people that shoot kids in the back is zero.
It is zero because they are never getting out of prison.
So the world has changed, and this includes basic values like compassion for the innocent.
Not me sister. I don’t change with the times or the wind.
You have nothing.
Beatings and whippings by designated authorities is not what happened here.
This boy was shot in the back by a murderer.
You both seemed to be happy the boy was murdered.
See post #177.
And yet, an 11 year old is dead.
Not condemning, just an observation.
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