A North Texas man pleaded guilty to a 2021 murder and was sentenced this week to 25 years in prison, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office said on social media.
Jacoby Jones, 27, of Irving, shot 38-year-old Eduardo Pedroza in the head and left his body on the side of a road in southeast Tarrant County.
According to District Attorney Phil Sorrells, Jones met with Pedroza to sell him a gun before the murder occurred.
Jones and other defendants drove away during the transaction without giving the victim the gun, and Pedroza jumped on the back of their vehicle, the prosecutor said. Jones then shot at him from the passenger window.
A driver found Pedroza’s body on the side of the road.
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“Thank you to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office and Irving Police Department for your work on this case and for protecting our citizens,” Sorrells said in the post.
