Javier Martel Estes has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after a Dallas County jury found him guilty of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon in connection to a 2024 shooting that injured a man at a bus stop.
On February 14, 2024, the 23-year-old victim, who had recently moved to Garland from Kansas City, was standing at a bus stop near Jupiter Road and McCree Road when Estes, then 17, drove by in a vehicle with several associates. Estes, a documented member of the street gang KTK (Konfirmed to Kill), was live-streaming on social media while pointing a .40 caliber handgun at the camera.
As the car passed the victim, Estes aimed the weapon out the window and shot the man several times at close range, still recording. The victim survived after a Dallas police officer arrived within a minute and applied tourniquets to stop the bleeding…