Posted on 05/01/2011 7:01:10 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
NEAR EDINBURG — The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s office is investigating an alleged home invasion that led to the shooting deaths of two men early Saturday morning.
About 2 a.m., the sheriff’s office received a call of shots fired and possibly a man down at the 52000 block of Nicole St., said Sheriff Lupe Treviño.
“We got there and found two men dead,” Treviño said. “One of the men was inside the house, the other man was outside the house.”
Because the investigation was in its early stages, authorities couldn’t disclose many details, but Treviño said the investigation points to a home invasion conducted by the two deceased men.
“The homeowners or residents in the house engaged the two men in a firefight, and both men died,” Treviño said. “At this stage, we can’t release the identity of the two men.”
The case is being investigated as a homicide, Treviño said.
“We are conducting the necessary investigations to determine if this is a justifiable homicide or if it was an actual homicide,” he said. “The autopsies will be conducted Monday morning. At that time, we will determine the official cause of death.”
He did not say whether anyone was in custody.
A middle-age woman was sweeping the driveway Saturday of the red-bricked house where the alleged invasion occurred.
“They broke into my house… they took my jewelry… they shot at my son,” the woman said in Spanish as she ran inside the door to avoid further questions.
The woman and her family had moved to the neighborhood approximately two weeks ago and mostly kept to themselves and were visited by acquaintances, according to neighbors.
Roberto Molina, 28, has lived in the neighborhood for about two years with his family and said he grew uneasy when the family moved in.
“I didn’t get the family atmosphere from them,” Molina said. “There were mostly men at the hous,e and the vehicles they parked there didn’t really fit with the neighborhood.”
According to Molina, the working class neighborhood is an odd place to find late model SUVs and luxury vehicles he often saw parked there.
When the shooting occurred, Molina’s family didn’t associate the noises with gunshots.
“My wife thought they were fireworks”, he said.
The double homicide came as a shock to neighbor Margarito Torres, 71, who said that the neighborhood where the shooting occurred has been pretty quiet for years.
“This is a very quiet neighborhood,” he said in Spanish as he sat on a rocking chair next to his wife Apolinar. “They had just moved here, they didn’t feel right and then this happens. This makes you think and worry.”
How many illegals are in that article? Of course, ICE is nowhere to be found.
This is part of the CWII. This is what it looks like.
The border is as secure as it’s ever been........
Move along folks. Nothing to see here..... /s
“A middle-age woman was sweeping the driveway Saturday of the red-bricked house where the alleged invasion occurred”
Hmmmmm, sweeping the driveway at 2am. I think there is going to be more to the story.
but I grant you that was not a very well constructed sentence, but then journalism these days is only about how much left wing boot one can lick :)
Isn't diversity grand?
/sarc
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