Arrest made in deadly October road rage shooting on 635 in Garland

GARLAND, Texas - Police announced they have arrested a suspect in a road rage shooting that killed a 30-year-old man in Garland.

Cesar Moreno-Pompa, a construction worker who lived in Dallas, was shot and killed on I-635 on October 23, 2022.

Police now believe that Davante Chatman, a delivery driver from Dallas, was the shooter.

He has been charged with murder.

Police said that Moreno-Pompa was traveling in the far left lane on 635, when a dark SUV cut him off.

Moreno-Pompa then passed the suspect.

Police believe that Chatman pulled up alongside Moreno-Pompa's vehicle and fired multiple shots into the car, killing Moreno-Pompa.

Moreno-Pompa’s passenger was singing a song and recording a mirrored video on his cell phone moments before the shooting.

In it, you can see the suspected shooter.

Chatman was arrested by Garland police on Thursday, May 18, more than six months after the shooting.

Oralia Moreno said she’s had little sleep the last seven months knowing her older brother’s killer was still out there.

"Try to explain to the kids he’s not here with us anymore. For my mom, that was her baby," she said.

Thursday night, Moreno received a call that an arrest had been made in her brother’s murder.

"I was not going to stop until this happened," she said. "I know it won’t bring him back, but at least I know he’s not committing other crimes just like what he did to my brother."

Moreno said she couldn’t imagine another family feeling her pain. 

"Who knows if he would’ve kept doing it," she added.

Friday, that feeling includes a slight sense of relief. 

"It’s something that we needed for the family. For my mom and everybody," she said.

Police said Chatman worked for the independent contractor Flex, which deliveries for Amazon. 

While on the job, Chatman continued a path of violence, as he was also linked to two additional road rage crimes in Garland.

"He had two more road rage shootings. On the second one, so I can recap that for you here, he shot at a vehicle which was occupied by a father, taking his juvenile son to school in the morning," Garland PD Lt Richard Maldonado said. "Fortunately, the juvenile was not injured. Unfortunately, the driver in that vehicle was shot."

Chatman was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury to a driver from an incident on Jan. 12 and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for an incident just last week, on May 12.

According to arrest affidavits, in the January 12 run in, a passenger was shot in the arm and chest by someone in a dark-colored SUV. The driver told police the suspected shooter was not happy with the speed at which he was driving.

In the May 12 incident, a 55-year-old woman called police after a suspect in a black Kia Sorento pulled out a gun and "chambered a round" after she had stopped for a cat in the middle of the street.

Police said this incident helped crack the murder case from back in October, as she was able to provide police with a license plate number.

"That was the tip, the break that we were able to go ahead and develop an actual tag, same type of vehicle. That tied everything together for us," Maldonado said.

Garland investigators used Flock cameras, security footage, and cell phone GPS to place Chatman at all three crimes. 

Once in custody, Chatman reportedly admitted his involvement in all three, but denied he was the aggressor.

Chatman is being held at the Garland Detention Center without bond.

Garland police said they have reached out to other North Texas police departments to see if Chatman is connected to other cases.