Man faces life sentence after admitting to carjacking elderly woman

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – A Lubbock judge will decide the punishment for a man who admittedly carjacked a 78-year-old woman back in January 2024.

19-year-old Zion Perez entered an open plea Tuesday morning for charges of aggravated robbery, a first degree felony.

Prosecutors say he and another teen attacked Carolyn Batteas outside a church at gunpoint, hitting her with a blunt object and trying to steal her car…

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