Man Arrested for Driving from Houston to San Angelo to Commit Murder

SAN ANGELO, TX — Police arrested Jermaine Love Levy, 24, for the murder of San Angelo native Magdaleno “Mag” Medina, who was gunned down on Lake Drive in the early hours of October 11, 2023. Investigators determined that Levy drove from Houston to San Angelo with the intent to kill Medina.

According to police reports, officers found Medina’s body lying near the curb in the 4800 block of Lake Drive. Next to him was a black Ram pickup truck with its engine still running. The rear passenger windows had been shattered, with glass fragments scattered inside the vehicle, indicating that the blows that broke the glass came from outside.

Court documents revealed that police recovered 10 cartridge casings at the scene. An autopsy confirmed that Medina died from multiple gunshot wounds and massive blood loss.

Initially, police released few details about the shooting. A nearby resident told officers he heard a tapping sound on his trailer at around midnight. When he stepped outside to investigate, he heard faint moaning but mistook it for a goat and returned inside. He had no clear view of where Medina was lying from his trailer's porch.

The key break in the case came from Medina’s abandoned cell phones, which police found inside the Ram truck. Investigators turned the phones over to Howard County Sheriff’s Investigator Gary Cole, a specialist in data extraction. Cole discovered that Medina had been exchanging messages on WhatsApp just minutes before the shooting, at 11:46 p.m. on October 10, 2023. The messages traced back to a number linked to Levy.

Despite this lead, police still needed more evidence.

On February 10, 2024, a woman called a San Angelo detective from Houston, claiming her life was in danger. She provided crucial information about the murder, identifying her boyfriend—Jermaine Levy—and three other men as the suspects. She told police that the group had driven from Houston to San Angelo to kill Medina, dropping her off in Austin on the way. The men picked her up on their return to Houston early the next morning.

Police obtained a search warrant for the woman’s phone. Cell tower data confirmed her account, showing her phone pinging in Houston, Giddings, and Austin on the night of October 10 and the early morning of October 11. During that time, she made calls to Levy, further confirming his phone number.

Armed with this new information, investigators traced Levy’s cell phone location. Records showed that his phone was at the crime scene between 12:15 and 12:25 a.m. It later reconnected with the woman’s phone's location in Austin by 3:56 a.m. before continuing back to Houston.

To strengthen their case, police reviewed footage from toll road cameras and Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems. The investigation revealed that a 2021 Toyota RAV4 with Ohio plates, believed to be driven by Levy, was recorded southbound on the 183-A toll road in Austin at 3:11 a.m. on October 11. The previous night, the same vehicle was tracked northbound Williamson County on I-35 on the way to San Angelo.

The final piece of evidence came from the RAV4’s built-in Toyota Safety Connect system. This GPS-based service, typically used to recover stolen vehicles, provided exact data placing the RAV4 at the scene of the murder at the precise time of the shooting.

Levy was arrested and booked into the Tom Green County Jail on February 7, 2024, at 6:57 p.m. His bond was set at $1 million.

Mag Medina, who was 43 at the time of his murder, was born in San Angelo in 1980. He was laid to rest on October 17, 2023, at Belvedere Memorial Park. His tribute on San Angelo LIVE! described him as “the life of the party” and a man who was always willing to help others:

“Mag was truly a genuine person. If you ever needed anything, you could count on Mag to make it happen. He was a loving son, brother, uncle, and best friend. Mag was loved by so many, and his memory will live on through the people who knew him best.”

In Texas, Murder is a first-degree felony that can result in a prison sentence of 5–99 years or life, plus a fine of up to $10,000.