(2 Sep 2025)
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Houston, Texas – 2 September 2025
1. Closeup of a makeshift memorial for 11-year-old Julian Guzman, who was shot and killed during a doorbell prank in Houston.
2. Mid of makeshift memorial
3. Mid of house sign
4. Mid of Houston Police homicide division use metal detectors, looking for clues in the murder of 11-year-old Julian Guzman, who was shot and killed during a doorbell prank in Houston.
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremiah McGee, Houston Resident:
"We live like, right down the block and we’re walking right on the sidewalk,(…) not even a block away. And we see blood all covered, dragged through the sidewalk. And then it probably like two more blocks and it stopped.(…) And then we was like, was it an animal? Was it a person? But it smelled terrible; It smelled really terrible."
6. Mid of a Houston Police homicide division office holding a metal detector and tags.
7. Bottom-to-top tilt shot of officers searching the area with a metal detector.
8. Mid of a Houston Police homicide division office looking for clues in the murder of 11-year-old Julian Guzman, who was shot and killed during a doorbell prank in Houston.
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremiah McGee, Houston Resident:
"And then we came back later that day from the gym. The blood was gone because it rained. And then the smell was over still there. So we made jokes, thinking like, maybe it’s a dead body or a dead animal, but it smelled really bad."
10. Mid of officers from HPD homicide division use a metal detector, looking for clues in the murder of 11-year-old Julian Guzman.
11. Mid of a home near where 11-year-old Julian Guzman was shot and killed during a doorbell prank in Houston.
STORYLINE:
Police have charged a Houston man with murder in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy who knocked on the door of a home and ran away as a prank, police said Tuesday.
The 42-year-old man, identified by authorities as Gonzalo Leon Jr., was taken into custody and booked into the Harris County Jail in Houston early Tuesday. On local property records, Leon matches the name of the owner of the home where police say the boy knocked on the door.
Court records did not list an attorney for Leon to comment on the allegations.
The boy, Julian Guzman, and a cousin had been attending a birthday party Saturday night when they “became bored and wanted to ring doorbells, or play ‘ding dong ditch,’” according to a probable cause affidavit. The prank commonly called “ding dong ditching” involves ringing a doorbell or knocking on a door and fleeing before someone inside opens the door.
AP video by Lekan Oyekanmi
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