RPD Arrests Accused Drive-By Shooter | 2017 Piyawat Nandeenopparit/Shutterstock.
RPD Arrests Accused Drive-By Shooter | 2017 Piyawat Nandeenopparit/Shutterstock.
From February 14, 2023 post.
A local man was sentenced in January to 10 years in prison after pleading no contest to second-degree murder and unlawful taking of a vehicle in connection with the shooting death of JoNicholas Aguilar, 23, of Roswell, in April 2021. Angel Fresquez, 22, entered his plea in District Court as part of a plea agreement, which convicts him of the crimes, reached with the District Attorney’s Office.
Fresquez received a total sentence on the murder charge of 16 years (15 years plus a one-year enhancement for use of a firearm in the crime), but seven and half years of that were suspended by the judge. Fresquez was sentenced to one and half years on the charge related to the stolen vehicle. The judge ordered the sentences to be served consecutively, creating a total 10-year prison sentence.
The RPD investigation of the shooting that occurred April 25, 2021, at about 8:30 p.m. in the 1500 block of West Walnut Street determined Fresquez had taken a friend’s vehicle without permission and was driving it when he began following a vehicle in which Aguilar was the passenger. Investigators believe Fresquez was driving erratically in a manner that could have been perceived as harassing toward the vehicle containing Aguilar.
When the two vehicles stopped, Aguilar got out of the vehicle and approached the vehicle driven by Fresquez. Investigators found that Aguilar stood by the driver’s-door window exchanging words with Fresquez before Fresquez shot once at Aguilar, striking him in the stomach, and then drove away.
Original source can be found here.
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