A 19-year-old is behind bars after he fatally shot a woman in a parking lot in northeast Harris County last week.
Fransico Javier Ochoa, according to court records, has been charged with manslaughter in the death of 24-year-old Joselyn Espinoza.
CrimesChroniclers gathered from ABC13 Houston that patrol officers responded to St. Joseph Medical Center on Sept. 15, when it was reported that a woman had been dropped off after suffering a gunshot wound to the head.
The woman, identified as Espinoza, according to Houston Police Department, was transported to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, where she later died from injuries.
At the time of filing this report, details surrounding the shooting remained unclear.
The shooting happened at the Palace Inn parking lot in the 15000 block of Mesa Drive at about 2 a.m.
Charging documents reveal there was surveillance video of a disturbance between the victim and the suspect in a green pickup truck that led to the shooting.
Ochoa, in the surveillance video, was seen banging on the truck’s passenger side window with a gun, where Espinoza was sitting.
At one point, the window is shattered, and the gun goes off, fatally hitting the woman, who was then seen falling out of the vehicle once Ochoa opened it.
Records said that Ochoa dropped the victim off. The victim’s family confirmed the two were in a dating relationship.
