Two Men Are Charged With Murder in the Lands End Drive Shooting That Killed Jermaine Fields, 20, in January
Leo Flores was charged in May. Geovanni Garcia was arrested and charged on November 5 - nine months after officers found Fields dead inside a Lands End Drive apartment and witnesses saw four to six males running from the scene.
Two men are now charged with murder in a January shooting that killed a 20-year-old man inside a west Houston apartment, according to the Houston Police Department. Jermaine Fields was found with a gunshot wound inside an apartment at 10350 Lands End Drive on January 27, the department's Homicide Division said, in an account reported by the Texas Herald News. Officers had responded to a shooting call at the address around 10:50 p.m.; Houston Fire Department paramedics pronounced Fields dead at the scene.
What witnesses told investigators that night is the outline detectives worked from: several gunshots, and four to six unknown males seen running from the location shortly afterward. Detectives said further investigation identified two suspects - Leo Flores, 20, and Geovanni Garcia, 21. Flores was arrested and charged with murder on May 13; his case sits in the 339th Criminal District Court. Garcia's arrest came nearly six months later, on November 5, with his murder charge filed in the 232nd Criminal District Court. Both men were booked into the Harris County Jail.
The investigation was handled by Homicide Division Sergeant M. Cass and Detectives M. Perez, A. Hernandez and J. Brown. Police have not said in their release whether they are looking for anyone else - a gap worth stating plainly, because the witnesses' account described more people leaving the scene than the two men now charged. The department may say more as the cases move; until it does, the verified record is two arrests, two charges and a witness count that has not been publicly reconciled with them.
Murder charges are accusations, not convictions, and neither man has been convicted of anything in this case. The desk will follow both court files - the 339th and the 232nd - and will update this story when police clarify whether the investigation remains open or when either case reaches a hearing that puts evidence on the record.
