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The supervisor of the US border patrol, Juan David Ortiz, was sentenced on Sunday to 2.5 million dollars in Texas for killing at least four women.
AP County / Webb Sheriff's Office
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The supervisor of the US border patrol, Juan David Ortiz, was sentenced on Sunday to 2.5 million dollars in Texas for killing at least four women.
AP County / Webb Sheriff's Office
A supervisor of the US Border Patrol is detained in Texas on a $ 2.5 million bail after his arrest this weekend, accused of killing four women after a fifth potential victim escaped and alerted the authorities.
Associated Press was the first to report the arrest of Juan David Ortiz, 35, detained in Laredo after being found hidden in his truck in a hotel car park Saturday morning.
The alleged victims of Ortiz, including the woman who escaped, would be prostitutes – any of them, a transgender woman, Isidro Alaniz, Webb County County Attorney -Zapata, quoted by the AP.
On Friday, Ortiz told the police that he had taken a fifth wife, Erika Pena.
"… she went willingly with him and while she was with him, things started to become dangerous for her and when she tried to escape from him at a gas station she met a soldier "said the Texas Tribune. "In our opinion, he is the only person responsible for this terrible series of serial killings."
"Erika said that David started acting strangely when she started talking about Melissa, a woman she knew who had been found dead the previous week," according to a criminal complaint. Texas Tribune reports. Melissa was apparently a reference to Melissa Ramirez, 29, one of the women that Ortiz admitted to killing, police said.
"David grabbed his shirt to prevent him from getting out of the car." Erika started screaming for help, Erika pulled off her shirt allowing her to escape and escape. vehicle, "says the complaint.
According to the AP, the investigation began with the discovery of Ramirez's body, who, like the victims later found, was shot in the head. The mother of two was found on a road in northwestern rural Webb County, according to the AP.
The PA writes: "A second victim, Claudine Anne Luera, aged 42, was found shot and left on the road Thursday morning, seriously injured but still alive, according to the affidavit. day."
Alaniz says that Ortiz used his own truck and that he was out of service when the attacks took place, but that he continued to work as a supervisor of the US Border Patrol during the attacks.
"As the forces of the order were looking for the killer … he would come to work every day as usual," he said.
Alaniz said the investigators were trying to determine a pattern.
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