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Police identify victims, suspect in Killeen murders

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KILLEEN, Texas – Two people are dead – and Killeen police are investigating the overnight incident as a homicide.

Police said one of the victims is a 15-year-old boy, and on Friday police identified the female victim as 18-year-old Revierra Elizabeth Aline Gibson. Their deaths mark the tenth and eleventh murders in Killeen for 2022.

The shooting deaths occurred just after 2:30 a.m. Thursday in the 600 block of Brook Drive.

"Justice of the Peace Gregory Johnson pronounced the 15-year-old male victim deceased at 3:26 a.m. and the unidentified female victim at 3:38 a.m," said police. "He ordered an autopsy to be performed at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas."

On Friday two complaints were returned charging 17-year-old Ruben Joel Fuentes Jr. with two counts of murder.

"Justice of the Peace Gregory Johnson arraigned Fuentes and he set his bond at $1,000,000 on each Murder charge," said Killeen police on Friday. "Fuentes is awaiting transport to the Bell County Jail."