Bystanders reported seeing a person in a hoodie and a red bandana fire the shot and flee the scene.

Kristian Leonardo Perdomo, 28, of Tyler, was arrested shortly after the shooting on Highway 64 and was later found guilty of murder in Brockman’s death. Prosecutors presented evidence at trial linking the same firearm by ballistics to several other December 2018 shootings in Tyler that left Mario Guzman, Jhoel Sevilla, Benny Jackson, and Jerome Jones dead; Perdomo has not been charged in those other cases.

Perdomo’s record noted prior convictions for engaging in organized crime, assault, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. His defense argued he joined a gang for friendship and had been abused in youth; the jury sentenced him to life in prison with no possibility of parole.