By Medina County Criminal District Attorney’s Office
MAY 27, 2025–Pedro Espinoza, Jr., 34, of Uvalde was sentenced to life in prison after a Medina County jury convicted Espinosa for the murder of Marlon Lindsey.
Marlon Lindsey, a US Army Veteran and father of four from Beaumont, Texas, had settled in San Antonio after finding work as a conductor for BNSF, a North American railroad company. The night he was killed, Lindsey was being driven to the Hondo Railyard by Vivian Olivarez, who also had John Suhling, a fellow railway employee, in her transport van. As the railroad employees traveled west on US Highway 90 through Medina County, Espinoza, who had been living in Uvalde County, was well into an hour-long crime-spree where he was reported by multiple 911-callers as driving on the wrong side of the roadway.
One witness testified to the jury about encountering a small silver vehicle, later identified as Espinoza’s, passing him and his mother on the passenger’s side of his vehicle, traveling on the shoulder of the westbound lane but heading east near the city of Sabinal in Uvalde County.
The witness described what he thought was the sound of a rock hitting his car, but when he made it to Del Rio and looked at his vehicle the next day, he noticed a half-inch bullet hole in the side of his vehicle, less than 3 feet from where his mother was sitting. Another pickup truck, driven by two young men from the Dallas area, was struck on the passenger’s side as they neared Hondo coming from Castroville. This time, the bullet was just inches from…..LOGIN TO CONTINUE READING CLICK HERE
