Tony Earls Jr. has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez on Valentine's Day in 2022.
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A Harris County jury on Tuesday found a man guilty of manslaughter in the 2022 shooting death of 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez.
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Earls, 35, had been robbed at gunpoint before firing his gun into a passing truck that contained Alvarez and her family, striking the girl in the head. What constitutes “recklessness” was at the center of the case.
A man who was arrested and charged in the 2022 shooting death of 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez in southeast Houston, and later no-billed by a grand jury, has been indicted for murder by another grand jury, according to the Harris County DA.
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Tony Earls Jr., 33, is accused of firing multiple gunshots into a pickup truck Alvarez was riding in after he had been robbed at a southeast Houston bank. Earls was arrested and charged with aggravated assault in the immediate aftermath of the shooting but subsequently no-billed by a grand jury. Another grand jury indicted him on a murder charge this week, based on new evidence.
The robber who targeted Earls, setting off the series of events that led to Arlene’s death, still has not been caught.
Arlene was killed in 2022 when Tony Earls was being robbed at an ATM in southeast Houston. Earls fired toward the robber, and a bullet instead struck the girl while she was in a vehicle driving by the scene.
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