One of three teens arrested in connection with a shooting last year that left one Paschal High School student dead and wounded another has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Isaiah Nuñez, 18, pleaded guilty and received a 35-year sentence in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Zechariah Treviño, the Tarrant County criminal district attorney’s office said in a social media post Friday. According to the post, Nuñez was given a 15-year sentence for aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury to Treviño’s cousin, a teenage girl.
Fort Worth police officers responded just after 4 p.m. Jan. 20, 2023, after a caller reported a child had been shot outside a Whataburger in the 2400 block of West Berry Street. Police Chief Neil Noakes has said that the shooting came after an argument that led to a physical altercation.
Both teens were taken to a hospital, where Treviño was pronounced dead.
Police said Nuñez and Daniel Reed, 18, were the gunmen. Another teen was accused of driving the car that brought Nuñez and Reed to the Whataburger.
Reed, who is in Tarrant County custody, faces charges of murder and aggravated assault, and court records show his case is still pending.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, the shooting stemmed from an Instagram comment left by the teenage girl. After the girl and Treviño had gone to the Whataburger across from Paschal High to wait for their grandmother to pick them up, two cars pulled into the parking lot.
Reed exited one of the cars, according to court documents, and began arguing with the girl before shooting her. Nuñez emerged from behind the car and fired shots at the girl and Treviño, striking them both.
Three days later, more than 100 people gathered for a candlelight vigil outside University United Methodist Church, which is across the street from the Whataburger. Erica Treviño, Zechariah’s mother, has said that he jumped in front of his cousin and saved her life.
At the vigil, she said her son was known to be a jokester and had the biggest heart.