Thread: Police Search for 'Person of Interest' in Triple Murder in Starr County

Police Search for 'Person of Interest' in Triple Murder in Starr Count

Updated: Aug 3, 2014 10:03 PM



STARR COUNTY - Police are investigating a triple homicide near Rio Grande City.
Investigators worked non-stop all day.
As they work to learn the motive behind this triple homicide, they are also looking for a person of interest.
As the sun rose, emergency lights lit Rosario Street, in Rio Grande City.
At 6:15am Sunday morning the Starr County Sheriff's office received a call regarding shots fired.
The community where it happened is near North Alvarez Road, just outside the Rio Grande City limits.
Starr County Sheriff's Investigator, Erasmo Rios Jr said several deputies and investigators found two men shot to death.
"A third was suffering from severe trauma to the abdomen area," said Rios. The third man was rushed to the hospital.
He later died from gun shot wounds. the identity of the three men have not been released.
Investigators say they are all from Honduras.
After a second look at the home, "investigators and deputies were able to discover a grenade that they believed to be live lying inside one of the hallways," said Rios.
The area surrounding the home was evacuated.
The McAllen bomb squad moved in. The confirmed live bomb was taken away from the scene.
Many families in the homes around the crime scene had been questioned by investigators. CHANNEL 5 NEWS managed to speak to a woman as she left her home.
She didn't want to be on camera, but she says she is shocked to learn three people died just a few homes from hers.
She said she never heard the gunshots Sunday morning. She only knew there was a problem when she saw emergency lights.
Meanwhile, Starr County investigators are looking for a person of interest. He is 24-year-old Eduardo Moreno. He is known to frequent the area.
If you have any information about Moreno, you are urged to call the Starr County Sheriff's Office 487-5571.

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FOUR GRENADES FOUND IN SCENE OF TRIPLE HOMICIDE




by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ
5 Aug 2014, 4

MCALLEN, Texas – Federal agents have been looking into the connections that led to four grenades and high caliber weapons being found in a Rio Grande City home where three men were shot early Sunday morning.

Starr County Sheriff’s investigators have released little information regarding the victims or the motive of the murders, however, they have identified 24-year-old Eduardo Moreno as a person of interest in the case.

Authorities had initially responded shortly after 6 a.m. to a residence just west of Rio Grande City for a shooting that had resulted in the death of three Honduran men that have not been publicly identified.

While sheriff’s investigators are looking into the homicide, agents with Homeland Security Investigations are looking into the identities of the victim, the source of the weapons, and any ties to organized criminal activity.

The McAllen Police bomb squad responded to the area in order to assist Starr County authorities with the handling of four grenades that were in the property, McAllen Police Chief, Victor Rodriguez, told Breitbart Texas.

Rodriguez would not comment on specifics of the case referring questions to Starr County authorities; however, he did say that the grenades were being handled by his department in order to assist their counterparts in their investigations.

“At this point we believe they are live,” the chief said adding that grenades were rare in the area up until two or three years ago when the drug violence in Mexico began to escalate and the demand for them went up.

The majority of grenades that authorities have recovered in Texas are make-shift in nature, unreliable, and typically made by doctoring dummy grenades, Rodriguez said.

A source close to the investigation confirmed that three of the grenades were of the fragmentation kind typically called “pineapples” while the other one was a concussion one.

Rio Grande City lies just north of Camargo Tamaulipas and is the largest city in Starr County, a county considered by law enforcement to be one of the main areas used by drug and human smugglers to enter the United States.

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