A documented Houston gang member will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing five people in three separate bouts of gun violence , authorities in the Lone Star State announced.
Christian Ivan Cavazos, 22, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday, over five years after the quintuple fatal “crime spree” that began in September 2019, according to a press release issued by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
“So many people, so many families will never have peace because of the indiscriminate violence this man inflicted on our community,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. “We swore an oath to see that justice is done, and in this case justice demanded that this man be sentenced to life in prison.”
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On Sept. 6, 2019, Cavazos was a passenger in a vehicle with other men, according to the DA’s office. Upon spotting another group of young men in another vehicle, Cavazos fired into the other car, wounding the driver and forcing him to pull over in an industrial area near Jersey Village, a small town and suburb of Houston.