{"id":494850,"date":"2026-01-05T20:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494850\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:29:19","slug":"man-sentenced-to-30-years-for-shooting-teenage-boy-in-shopping-center-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494850\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 30 years for shooting teenage boy in shopping center parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A man found guilty of shooting a teenage boy last year in a shopping center parking lot has found out how long he&#8217;ll spend in prison. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/murder-suspect-arrested-after-allegedly-fatally-shooting-man-outside-shopping-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Murder suspect arrested after allegedly fatally shooting man outside shopping center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bexar County Judge Benjamin Robertson of the 226th District Court sentenced Terry Johnson to 30 years in prison Monday for the murder of 18-year-old Demarion Leal Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful that justice has been served in this case,\u201d said Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales. \u201cWe would like to extend our deepest sympathies to Demarion\u2019s family and hope this verdict can bring some measure of closure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The case dates back to April 5, 2024, when officers discovered Smith\u2019s body in a parking lot. He was pronounced dead at the scene, having suffered gunshot wounds to his back and chest.<\/p>\n<p>Several months later, Johnson admitted to authorities that he had fired the shots, claiming he acted in self-defense. That claim was refuted by video evidence collected by law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A man found guilty of shooting a teenage boy last year in a shopping center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":494851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-494850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115844387004916978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}