Widow says man charged with killing her husband in Texas restaurant is former co-worker

Monday, July 14, 2025
PASADENA, Texas -- The wife of the man killed in a deadly shooting in a Pasadena, Texas restaurant on Friday night said the accused shooter is a former co-worker.

Imelda Crespon remembers her husband Eddie Zamora as a loving caretaker. She says her husband just helped her beat stage four colon cancer, and now she's left struggling to make sense of his death.

Pasadena police said 48-year-old Kenneth Leon Scott Jr. killed Zamora inside the busy Bubba's 33 restaurant, and left another employee injured.

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Crespon said that Scott and her husband were former co-workers, and said the pair met up at the restaurant after Scott messaged Zamora, after years without contact.

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Scott was apprehended and taken to the Fayette County Jail, where he is being held for transport to the Harris County Joint Processing Center.

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The restaurant, which remained closed after the incident, said it will be open on Monday, and announced that the injured employee was released from the hospital and is doing well.
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