Jurors in El Paso settled into the box Tuesday, July 7, as the long-delayed trial opened in the 2021 McDonald’s parking-lot killing on the city’s west side near the University of Texas at El Paso. Robron Lewis is accused of capital murder in the shooting of 22-year-old Jacal Jacob Allen, a case that authorities say started as a drug deal and ended in gunfire.
According to KVIA, the shooting happened Oct. 28, 2021, in the McDonald’s parking lot on Mesa Street. Police say Lewis and alleged co-defendant Tranquil Card, then 24, had arranged to buy marijuana from Allen when the deal turned violent. One of the suspects allegedly fired multiple rounds, killing Allen and making off with roughly 10 pounds of marijuana, according to an affidavit.
Documents show an off-duty officer followed the pair from the scene to the UTEP campus, where officers later found them hiding inside a university auditorium. The search briefly prompted shelter-in-place orders for campus housing, KVIA reported…