Man given 60 years in prison in Diamond Hill smoke shop shooting that killed one
.jpg "Hector Deleon was sentenced to 60 years in prison after he was found guilty of fatally shooting 34-year-old Christopher Esparza at a Fort Worth smoke shop in 2021.")
A man was sentenced to 60 years in prison Friday after he was found guilty of murder in a 2021 Fort Worth shooting, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office said in a social media post.
Hector Deleon, 43, was sentenced by a Tarrant County jury at the conclusion of the trial Friday.
On May 24, 2021, Deleon went into a business, Kool Stuff Smoke Shop on Northeast 28th Street in the Diamond Hill neighborhood, where he shot 34-year-old Christopher Esparza, according to the district attorney’s office.
Esparza died from a gunshot wound to his back and his death was ruled a homicide by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.
With a long history of violent crime, Deleon also admitted to wounding Esparza in a previous shooting in 2019, the district attorney’s office said.
