A 22-year-old man held at the Lubbock County jail since February 2025 no longer faces a murder charge in connection with a deadly shooting at a quinceañera at a north Lubbock venue.
Joe Angel Martinez appeared Wednesday, Sept. 16, in the 364th District Court where Judge William Eichman granted a Lubbock County District Attorney’s Office motion to dismiss the murder charge against Martinez in the Feb. 15, 2025 shooting death of 36-year-old Adam Hernandez was dismissed.
However, Martinez, who has been held at the Lubbock County Detention Center since his Feb. 22, 2025, arrest was sentenced to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a second-degree felony count of possession of between 4-200 grams of methamphetamine…