On the night of December 4, 2025, the small glow of a family taco truck on West Dyna Drive in north Houston turned into a crime scene. Yaddua Barraza Hernandez, a 36-year-old man, had been closing up when two males walked up to the business; investigators say one opened fire into the truck while the other reached in and took money before both fled on foot. He was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
In the hours after the shooting, worry is what pulled his family back to the truck. When he didn’t answer calls and didn’t come home, relatives went looking for him and found him inside, still at the place where he’d been working only minutes earlier. Police placed the shooting at about 10:45 p.m. to just before 11 p.m., at 119 West Dyna Drive, a stretch where late-night food service is part of the routine—until it suddenly wasn’t.
As detectives worked the case, authorities identified Angel Adonis Saldivar-James, 24, as the suspected shooter. He was arrested on December 8, 2025, and prosecutors filed a murder charge days later. Court records and subsequent reporting also tied an aggravated robbery charge to the same incident, reflecting the allegation that the attack was not only deadly, but theft-driven as well.
Public accounts of what led up to the killing paint it as something more than a random encounter—more like a return visit. Reporting in the days after the arrest described an earlier attempted holdup involving the same suspect and an accomplice, with the victim having already faced a prior confrontation at the truck before the gunfire that ended his life. Those reports say the second man involved in the December 4 attack grabbed cash—including the day’s earnings—and ran.
Even after the arrest, one major piece of the puzzle remained missing in official updates: the identity of the second suspect. Police statements described two offenders—one who shot, one who stole—and later reports continued to note that the accomplice had not been publicly identified. The case, in other words, moved forward with one defendant named, while the other figure in the shadows was still unresolved.
In the weeks that followed, Saldivar-James remained in custody as the courts weighed whether he could be released before trial. A Harris County judge denied bond, and reporting described the decision as an early local use of a new Texas constitutional provision allowing judges to hold certain defendants without bail; coverage also noted an immigration hold associated with the suspect. With the murder and robbery allegations now in the court system, the next chapters hinge on prosecutors’ evidence, the search for the second suspect, and what ultimately emerges in hearings on the road to trial.
