Suspect Indicted After Blasting San Angelo Man in the Chest with a Shotgun

SAN ANGELO, TX – A Tom Green County Grand Jury has indicted Abel Rueda for shooting a man in the chest with a shotgun after declaring he was with the wrong gang.

As previously reported, on Oct. 24, officers with the San Angelo Police Department were dispatched to the 600 block of E. 20th St. for the report of a murder. See: AFFIDAVIT: Stripes Burritos Surround Body After Gangster Blasts Rival with Shotgun

When the officers arrived they found the body of Juan Quintana, 29, lying on his back in the front yard of a residence on the 600 block at around 5:39 a.m. Officers stated that the body was lying with the feet to the west and the head to the north. 

Also around the body were a number of Laredo Taco Company burritos all around the yard. Police then went to the nearest Stripes located at 809 19th street.

While at Stripes the officers reviewed the surveillance video and spotted Quintana as well as a bald hispanic male inside the store. The man was later identified and found.

He told officers that he and Quintana were inside the Stripes at around 5:29 a.m. They went to the store  that night to buy burritos.

The man with Quintana told officers that he had noticed a man and woman walk into the store while they were inside. He told officers that it was very apparent that Quintana and the man knew each other.

The two then left the Stripes to eat their burritos on the concrete parking barrier. The man and woman from inside of the store sat in a black Cadillac CTS and watched the two men.

The man with Quintana told Quintana that they should leave and they did. They were then followed by the Cadillac throughout the streets of north San Angelo.

Cadillac followed them from the Stripes to the 600 block of E. 20th. This is when the Cadillac finally pulled up to the two men walking. "What set do you claim?" said the driver to Quintana. Quintana responded to the driver by saying that he was with San Angelo. 

The man then pulled out a shotgun and shot Quintana in the upper right torso. The suspect then fled the scene.

Police then went back to the Stripes and gathered financial evidence. In the evidence, the officers were able to identify the debit card owner used at stripes as 31-year-old Abel Rueda.

Rueda not only used his card at the stripes but also the 29th street Walmart. He was seen on camera in the same clothes getting gas. He also went into the Stripes on 39th and Chadbourne. 

A warrant was then issued for Rueda for Murder. Rueda was arrested in Howard County and transferred to the Tom Green County Jail on Dec. 4.

Rueda was indicted by a Tom Green County Grand Jury for the Murder on Dec. 9.

He remains in jail on a $500,000 bond. He is also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon in Howard County.