GUILTY TX - Juan Guerrero Chapa, 43, cartel attorney, fatally shot, Southlake, 22 May 2013

fhc said:

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/man-shot-to-death-in-southlake-town-square.html/

A 43-year-old man was shot to death Wednesday evening in the bustling Southlake Town Square.

The man, who was from Southlake was sitting in the passenger side of his car around 6:45 p.m. when a white SUV pulled up next to them, police said. The SUV’s passenger got out and opened fire, getting off at least five shots.

The shooter hopped back into the SUV and fled. The SUV was last seen driving westbound on Highway 1709.

The man was taken to Baylor Medical Center at Grapevine, where he was pronounced dead.

Police said the man’s wife was in the driver’s seat at the time, and multiple witnesses saw the shooting.

Southlake Police Chief Steve Mylett said he believes the shooting, which was rare for the suburb, was targeted.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Gunfire-at-Southlake-Town-Square-208584781.html

http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/05/22/4877688/one-fatally-shot-in-southlake.html

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/05/22/one-man-dead-after-being-shot-at-southlake-town-square/

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Shooting-at-Southlake-Town-Square-One-Person-Dead-208586591.html
NBC 5 has learned that federal agents are now involved in the investigation because of possible drug cartel connections.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/22401937/man-shot-killed-in-southlake-town-square-no-arrests-made


This will be a big story in the DFW area. The victim was a top exec. with a gambling corp. based in south Texas. Southlake is one of the most affluent cities in the nation.

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SailorMoon said:

Tis strange for sure. Heard a snippet of it while getting kid on bus but new something wasn't right. Southlake? Kind of like when they murdered Mark Hasse in Kaufman. Hard to believe that someone would be that coldblooded. ETA - Was wife in car or not, heard earlier she wasn't.

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SCHMAE said:

On the news, they said she was in car in driver's seat and he was in passenger. An earlier tweet by Brandon Todd Fox 4, said a '12 yr old was saying my dad was killed' so I don't know if the boy was in the car with them or perhaps inside a shop and came out to find them or what.

Brandon Todd Twitter link above !

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mijamawi said:

This is crazy. I grew up in Grapevine.. back when Southlake was nothing but a few neighborhoods and some farmland. The high school was a tiny school off of Dove.

I have to admit when I first heard about this, I thought for sure it was a MFH by the wife.

To think a Mexican Drug Cartel hit could take place in Southlake is just insane.

I hope they find the suspects soon, although I'm thinking that's highly unlikely.

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fhc said:

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/201...ttorneys-alleged-ties-to-mexican-cartel.html/

Southlake police will not address reports concerning slain attorney’s alleged ties to Mexican cartel

Alfredo Corchado and Monique Madan reported last week that Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa, gunned down in Southlake’s Town Square, was the personal attorney for Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas, who’s behind bars for, among other things, drug trafficking and money laundering. An investigator would later tell Alfredo that the cartel likely ordered the killing because of “disputes over money and personal differences.” But just last night, KXAS-Channel 5 added this possible scenario to the mix: Guerrero Chapa was “a confidential informant for the U.S. government.”

Federal law enforcement officials have nothing to say about the Channel 5 report. Neither does the Southlake Police Department, which today released two new minor details concerning the murder — though nothing that addresses the attorney’s purported ties to the Gulf cartel.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Slain-Drug-Cartel-Lawyer-Was-US-Informant-209598171.html

Slain Drug Cartel Lawyer Was U.S. Informant

The Mexican drug cartel attorney who was slain execution-style in Southlake last week had been a confidential informant for the U.S. government, law enforcement sources told NBC 5.

Juan Guerrero Chapa, 43, had worked for the Department of Homeland Security Investigations, secretly providing inside information on cartel operations to American investigators.

HSI is part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Two men wanted in connection with a 2013 North Texas homicide appeared in federal court here Monday morning. U.S. Magistrate Judge Dorina Ramos charged Jesus Ledezma and Jose Luis Cepeda, both 58, with interstate stalking with the intent to kill...

The criminal complaint against the two men said they’d traveled to Southlake “and elsewhere” from Mexico between March 1, 2011, and the date of Guerrero’s homicide...

If convicted of the interstate stalking charge, the men could spend the rest of their lives in federal prison, but the sentencing judge also would have discretion to set a lower sentence.

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The suspects made several trips across the border to North Texas to stalk Guerrero Chapa while living in a rented Grapevine apartment, the records say. They allegedly used at least eight rented and purchased cars. A camera set up in his neighborhood captured Guerrero Chapa driving his Range Rover, which also had a tracking device attached underneath. And cameras were also aimed at the victim’s home, officials said.

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Investigators got a break when they found the suspect vehicle abandoned in a business parking lot about a month after the shooting. They also found a tracking device underneath the Sequoia. Employees told investigators the vehicle had been sitting there for at least three weeks.

Agents contacted the company that provided the device and learned that there were five other tracking devices associated with that account. Investigators then used data from the surveillance devices as well as the suspects’ mobile phones to track their movements from Mexico to North Texas.

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Three more people have been indicted in connection with the brazen murder of a Mexican drug cartel lawyer on Southlake's town square last year, bringing to six the number facing charges, according to court records.

The additional suspects have not been arrested and are believed to be hiding in Mexico.

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