AUSTIN (KXAN)– 2 individuals were apprehended and billed with funding murder after their affirmed participation in a murder that occurred previously this month in north Austin, according to Travis Area court files.
Those apprehended were recognized in court documents as 22-year-old Alejandro Hurtado Reyes and 29-year-old Yanaris Reyes. Both suspects were apprehended on Tuesday, Aug. 12.
Yanaris Reyes and Alejandro Hurtado Reyes were both scheduled right into the Travis Area prison on a $200,000 bond.
KXAN has actually connected to both Yanaris Reyes and Alejandro Hurtado Reyes’ lawyers for a declaration, and we will certainly upgrade this if they are gotten.
What caused the homicide
The information started to unravel Aug. 3 around 2:40 a.m. when a 911 telephone call was created a record of a guy that was fired near the La Michoacana Market at 9811 N. Interstate 35 solution roadway northbound. Court files recognized that guy as 49-year-old Miguel Mondragon.
When Austin law enforcement officer got here on the scene, they discovered Mondragon in a “verdant location in between the freeway and the front of the marketplace with apparent injury.” He was obvious dead at 3:25 a.m., according to the sworn statement.
An postmortem examination performed the following day exposed “Mondragon had an evident gunfire to his ideal upper leg,” court documents stated.
2 various other males were with Mondragon at a close-by sporting activities bar, situated in the 9600 block of I-35 solution roadway northbound. After that, all 3 males left bench with each other and drove “the brief range to the Michoacana Market, where they were trying to puncture the car park so they might take a trip southbound on Center Fiskville Roadway.”
Then, the males informed authorities detectives that a grey car obstructed them, and afterwards “they saw a number of individuals leave the automobiles, all putting on masks and displaying weapons.” Security video from business revealed that the grey car and a white Dodge Durango drew in behind the pickup.
Both males stated they do not understand why, yet Mondragon left the automobile and escaped from the scene. That is when both males listened to “numerous gunfires and afterwards repelled, appearing a back entrance, as they quickly called 911.” Court documents stated they after that drove to a “much safer place.”
Surveillance video clip likewise revealed Mondragon quit at the rear of the vehicle while standing alongside a person prior to he later on was up to the ground, according to the sworn statement.
Authorities verified that Mondragon’s watch, cellular phone and money were extracted from him after he was fired, according to the sworn statement.
After the capturing, both the car and Dodge Durango repelled from the location, court documents stated.
Finding the suspects
Police detectives assessed monitoring video clip at the sporting activities bar and verified among the suspects, later on recognized as Yanaris Reyes, was the motorist of the car. She was seen on monitoring video at the sporting activities bar, according to the sworn statement.
Staff members with the sporting activities bar verified that Yanaris Reyes utilized to function there, yet was “lately terminated for swiping money and pocketbooks from clients.” They likewise verified she drove the Dodge Durango, which came from her guy, Alejandro Hurtado Reyes, court documents stated.
As soon as detectives had the ability to validate that Alejandro Hurtado Reyes was the proprietor of the Dodge Durango, they after that acquired warrants for both his and Yanaris Reyes’ cellular phone information. That information exposed they were both in the location of the murder when it occurred, according to the sworn statement.
