A 20-year-old woman is headed to prison for more than two decades after she handed her 12-year-old nephew a gun and told him to go shoot a Sonic employee who confronted her brother about peeing in the parking lot.

Ashley Jasmin Marmolejo pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 25 years in the Texas Department of Corrections for the shooting death of 32-year-old Matthew Davis, a Sonic employee, the Johnson County District Attorney's Office said .

Marmolejo, her brother Angel Gomez, then 20, and the boy, then 12, were at the restaurant in Keene, which is some 40 miles southwest of Dallas, on May 13, 2023, when Gomez decided to relieve himself in the parking lot. Davis confronted Gomez and told him to stop as Marmolejo and the boy watched from their car.

"The argument soon became phy

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