Posted on 04/29/2023 6:35:08 PM PDT by lowbridge
Erick Aguirre, 29, was arrested north of Corpus Christi, Texas Tuesday, the New York Times reported. He is charged in connection with the April 11 death of 46-year-old Elliot Nix in Houston. He was jailed on a $200,000 bond after an arraignment Thursday.
Aguirre and his date, Melanie Castillo, arrived in separate cars for a date at a restaurant called the Rodeo Goat on the night of the shooting, according to the Times.
Once they parked, a man approached them to pay a $20 parking fee each car. Aguirre paid, and the couple went on to the restaurant. When they got to the Rodeo Goat, a worker told them the seeming parking attendant was actually a "scammer."
Castillo, who voluntarily gave a statement to police two days after the shooting, reportedly said Aguirre "sprinted" back to the cars while she waited outside the restaurant.
A witness from a nearby smoke shop told police he saw Aguirre pull a pistol from his car. Next, he heard a gunshot, saw Aguirre return to the car with the gun, then saw Aguirre go back to Rodeo Goat, according to the Times' review of court documents.
Castillo, the woman on the date, said Aguirre told her he "just scared the guy." The pair went inside the restaurant, only to leave shortly after when Aguirre suggested going someplace else.
"She was devastated to learn of the death," Castillo's attorney, Rock DeToto, told the Times. He added that Castillo was "shocked to see a photo of herself on the news and to hear that she was a person of interest."
"The penal code in Texas, and in 49 other states, and in most civilized countries, doesn’t give you any legal basis to shoot and kill someone who ripped you off," legal analyst Brian Wice told KPRC.
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Understandable.
While many will want to have the man given life there is another side here.
The victim had probably been doing that to hundreds if not thousands of unsuspecting good people. Simultaneously making them more poor and ruining their days or even weeks. Depending on the city and judge the system might have let him off almost punishment free to resume preying on the innocent again and again.
And doing it on the parking lot of the Rodeo Goat? What did he expect to happen?
I guess Elliot Nix’s promising career as a parking lot scammer is over.
Still...it was a very good outcome. One less scum bag on the planet.
well done
Criminals get taken care of one way or another. I wonder if the deceased would have preferred being arrested and served time for his crimes?
Guilty. But if you’re going to shoot someone, may as well be the guy he shot.
“laws” don’t permit....
Remember the disgusting lowlife political elites who pass the laws to help themselves and their bribe/lobbyist supporters.
They never give a single thought to the good of the people.
The are the ones who pass the laws we are supposed to follow or get thrown into the legal system wood chipper.
If I was on the jury, he’d walk.
Was the guy stealing the cars or just acting as a unauthorized parking attendant?
The woman shown in the picture in the article is quite a bit chubbier than the one shown in the photo you posted.
It sounds like just an unauthorized parking attendant
Good riddance to trash. Aguirre will thankfully serve 30-40 years in prison.
That’s the problem these days. The scammer would never see the inside of a cell. He would have his hand slapped and released.
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