A Teen On Texas’ Most Wanted List Gets Arrested After Posting His Location On Instagram

Christopher Ricardo Gonzalez was taken into custody in Los Angeles. The teen was a suspect in a series of violent home invasions. The 18-year-old Gonzalez had been named to Texas’ Most Wanted list in August.

Dallas police contacted the LAPD after Gonzalez streamed a live video on Instagram, showing a shotgun and other weapons, authorities said.

Dallas officials were able to provide GPS coordinates of the video signal, and LAPD undercover officers ultimately located the suspect vehicle, a rented black Chevrolet SUV.

Los Angeles Police Department Officer Rosario Herrera said the Dallas Police Department contacted the LAPD’s Topanga Division about the felony robbery suspect possibly being in the area of Woodland Hills.

A short chase ensued, but the pursuit ended when the vehicle crashed into a power pole in the 4800 block of Serrania Avenue, where Gonzalez was found and bit by K-9 officers.  A second suspect ran out of the SUV and hid in the area, but he was apprehended just an hour later.

Woodland Hills homeowner Todd Melnik witnessed the end of the chase and the dramatic arrest play out on his front lawn. “I started hearing the suspect screaming,” Melnik recalled. “They called the dog off of him and then they order him to crawl backward from inside the bushes next to my fence, backward onto my front lawn.”

Gonzalez is accused of fatally shooting Horace Davis, 54, in Dallas last year. Officers who were responding to a report of gunshots found Davis dead in the driver’s seat of a parked car and later got evidence linking Gonzalez to the crime, investigators said.

Authorities said he was among a group of suspects wanted for several home invasions in Dallas from October 2016 until February 2017 (photo: ABC News).

The other suspect was the driver of the vehicle, Petros Gebru, he was arrested in connection with felony evading of a police officer, said Officer Tony I’m, an LAPD spokesman.

According to the county sheriff’s department booking log, Gebru (25) was being held on $75,000 bail while Gonzalez had a no-bail hold.

Gonzalez, also known as “Little Chris,” has an affiliation with the Bloods gang, and along with murder allegations, is suspected to have participated in a string of aggravated home invasions in Dallas from October 2016 through February 2017.

He was in custody Tuesday and expected to be extradited to Texas, police said. It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney who could comment on the allegations. A $5,000 dollar reward had been offered by Dallas police for his capture.

Instagram records users’ global positioning system (GPS) co-ordinates when they use the feature, in order to let others browse its Stories by location.

Instagram’s video facility played a role in another California-based arrest earlier this year after a young driver was accused of having live-streamed a car accident in which her younger sister died. The 18-year-old Obdulia Sanchez faces charges of gross vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, but her lawyer said the tires of her car were to blame.