Brian Davila Murder Trial Set for November After More Than Six Years
By Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2026 Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc.
More than six years after 19-year-old Brian Davila was shot and killed in Eagle Pass, Texas, Luis Alonso Perez Jr. is scheduled to stand trial on November 12, 2026, on a murder charge in connection with his death.
By the scheduled trial date, six years and more than five months will have passed since the shooting. Perez was sentenced to prison more than two years ago in a separate case involving an earlier incident at Davila’s residence, but the murder charge remains unresolved.
Davila was shot May 23, 2020, outside a business in the 2200 block of El Indio Highway following an altercation. He was transported to Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center, where he later died from his injuries.
Authorities allege Perez fled the scene before officers located and arrested him at his residence. He was charged with murder in 2020 and indicted by a Maverick County grand jury in July 2022.
Davila was killed in May 2020, but Perez was not indicted until July 2022. Now, more than four years after that indictment, the murder case is scheduled to go to trial on November 12.
In September 2024, Perez received a 14-year prison sentence after being found guilty of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit aggravated assault. That charge stemmed from a December 19, 2019, incident involving Davila’s residence, approximately five months before the fatal shooting.
The proceedings lasted approximately three weeks and concluded around 2:45 a.m. September 13, 2024. Following his conviction, Perez was remanded to a state correctional facility.
Prosecutors presented the December incident as part of a sequence of events leading up to the May shooting. The burglary conviction, however, did not settle the murder case, which requires a separate determination in court.
While that earlier prosecution resulted in a prison sentence, the charge involving Davila’s death has remained pending.
The information available for this report does not explain the reasons for the years it has taken to bring the murder case to trial.
Davila was 19 when his life was cut short. More than six years later, his family and those who knew him are still waiting for the case involving his death to be decided.
The November 12 setting brings that possibility closer, although the murder charge will remain unresolved until the court proceedings reach a conclusion.
Perez is presumed innocent of the pending murder charge unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
