Esequiel Trejo, Jr. v. State of Indiana

── Esequiel Trejo, Jr. v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 25A-CR-00039 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: September 29, 2025 Author: Judge Mary DeBoer County of Origin: St. Joseph Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Judge Altice and Judge Pyle concur On July 10, 2023, seventeen-year-old Luis Hernandez-Acosta and teenager Israel Vargas 1 agreed to meet and “confront each other.” Tr. Vol. 3 at 8. That night, Hernandez-Acosta asked several of his friends and relatives to come with him to “bang it out wit [sic]” Vargas. Exhibits Vol. 7 at 114. The group he assembled walked with him to El Tecate, a restaurant in South Bend near the area where Vargas said he would be that evening.