Opinion
Texas law enforcement officer’s killing results in charges against five more people
Costs have been filed on two extra people associated to the deadly capturing of a Texas corporal throughout a visitors cease in Houston on Sunday.
The Houston Police Division introduced that expenses have now been filed in opposition to 5 people in connection to the deadly capturing of Harris County Precinct 5 Corporal Charles Galloway, 47.
Oscar Rosales, 51, is being charged with capital homicide of a police officer, whereas Mauricio Pereira Marquez, 42, and Reina Azucena Pereira Marquez, 40, are being charged with tampering with proof.
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Two different people, Jose Santos Gutierrez Cruz, 68, and Jose Romel Hernandez Cruz, 43, are being charged with hindering apprehension.
The Houston Police Division additionally launched their mugshots on Friday.
Rosales is accused of fatally capturing Galloway on early Sunday morning throughout a visitors cease at 12:45 a.m. when police say that the suspect bought out of his automobile and opened hearth with an “assault-type weapon,” witnesses say, and left the corporal useless.
On Monday, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner mentioned that video proof of the capturing was recovered.
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Rosales was apprehended in Mexico on Wednesday, and has since been handed over to authorities in the USA.
Harris County Cpl. Charles Galloway was gunned down throughout a visitors cease Sunday morning.
(Houston OEM)
His common-law wife and her brother had been arrested after the visitors cease. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that they aren’t U.S. residents.
Harris County District Legal professional Kim Ogg mentioned that Rosales is probably going not the suspect’s precise identify, which implies authorities don’t have a transparent historical past of his previous.
“Oscar Rosales is the identify that he’s recognized by now, it isn’t recognized below that identify the place his true citizenship is, what his true legal historical past is, however this {photograph} tells you who we’re in search of,” she mentioned. “You may’t run from your individual picture.”
