HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An arrest has been made in a murder that’s sat unsolved for more than nine years.<\/p>\n
Henry Ibanez was arrested on Wednesday and charged with the 2016 murder of Emanuel Carrillo outside a north Houston house, according to court records.<\/p>\n
“I thought that this was never gonna happen, that we were not gonna get this phone call that he’s already in jail,” the victim’s sister, Lilly Hinojosa, said.<\/p>\n
Carrillo was shot dead in a driveway on McDaniel Street near the Hardy Toll Road on May 21, 2016.<\/p>\n
Another man was also hit but survived his injuries.<\/p>\n
Carrillo’s family said he had gone to a friend’s house to help his friend’s sister, whose ex-boyfriend had shown up and was threatening to set a car on fire.<\/p>\n
“He’s a person that will help anybody and will do anything for anybody,” Hinojosa said,<\/p>\n
At the time, police said an argument ensued between two groups of people prior to the shooting.<\/p>\n
Hinojosa said neighbors told her one man emerged from a sunroof and began firing.<\/p>\n
“Why? Why you just, you know, shot at everybody? I mean, he didn’t do nothing to you,” the victim’s brother, Oscar Carrillo, said.<\/p>\n
In 2017, a year after the shooting, court records show Ibanez was convicted of discharging a firearm after shooting in the direction of a different man. He was sentenced to two days in jail.<\/p>\n
As far as Carrillo’s family knows, he and Ibanez were total strangers. Investigators haven’t provided a motive for the shooting.<\/p>\n
“I guess he didn’t have a heart. He just – he just wanted to kill somebody ’cause my shooting in the air, you’re gonna kill somebody,” Hinojosa said.<\/p>\n
Carrillo left behind a wife, two daughters, and a son.<\/p>\n
Ibanez is being held on a $100,000 bond.<\/p>\n
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