AUSTIN, Texas — A man has been sentenced to a decade in prison for a deadly road rage shooting in northeast Austin in 2017.
According to court records, Juan De Dios Carbajal-Jaimes was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison, plus $450 in fees, in connection with the September 2017 shooting. Records show Carbajal-Jaimes pleaded not guilty to the charge on May 21, was convicted on May 22 and was sentenced the following day.
In September 2017, then-18-year-old Carbajal-Jaimes shot University of Texas at Austin employee Alfred Lockett after their vehicles collided at the intersection of Parmer Lane and Dessau Road.
At the time, Austin police said Carbajal-Jaimes was in the country illegally. The investigation was led by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force due to the circumstances surrounding Carbajal-Jaimes' citizenship status.
A warrant was issued for Carbajal-Jaimes' arrest on Sept. 14, 2017.
"I'm not angry [at Carbajal Jaimes]," Marjorie Hutchinson, Alfred Lockett's mother, told KVUE in October 2017. "I'm not going to waste my energy on him."
Years later, on Feb. 2, 2023, the sheriff's office for Montgomery County, in the Houston area, announced that Carbajal-Jaimes had been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. His bond was set at $1 million.