Two illegal immigrants from Mexico — one wanted by Mexican authorities — were arrested in connection to a murder behind a tire shop in Austin, Texas.
A tire shop employee found a woman’s body in a wooded area behind the business with “apparent trauma” and reported it to Austin police on Oct. 6, according to the Austin Police Department.
Enrique Gomez-Urbina, 21, of Mexico, was arrested by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and has been charged with first-degree murder. His bond was set at $254,000 and he remains in the Travis County Jail.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged an immigration detainer on Gomez-Urbina pending the homicide investigation, an ICE official confirmed to several news outlets. He illegally entered the United States on an unknown date and location, FOX 7 Austin reported.
A second suspect and Gomez-Urbina’s “associate,” Jesus Llamas-Yanez, 48, of Mexico, is wanted by federal authorities in Mexico for a weapons charge and will be extradited back to Mexico.
🚨 Travis County, TX: Last week, illegal alien Enrique Gomez-Urbina was arrested for Murder in connection with the shooting death of Mary Gonales.
Local reporting appears to have missed that he was released on a personal bond up to two days before his murder arrest.
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“President Trump and Secretary Noem will not allow criminal aliens to walk freely on U.S. streets,” an ICE official shared in a statement to FOX 7 Austin. “ICE will continue to prioritize public safety by arresting and removing alien offenders from the U.S.”
The victim was identified as 43-year-old Mary Gonzales by the Travis County Medical Examiner’s office, and she died from the gunshot wound, Fox News Digital reported.
Roman Ramos works at the tire shop in North Austin and found the body, reporting it around 7:40 a.m. Oct. 6 to police.
“At times when I open up the shop and I always look out here, I don’t know what to expect or what to find,” Ramos told FOX 7 Austin.
In another FOX 7 Austin report, a homeless woman was camping out in the field next to the auto shop and reportedly heard the shooting take place.
“I heard something like a pop,” she said, adding it sounded like a firecracker and she went back to sleep. “I think my husband saw a car come through…that was like late, between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning. But there was no evidence of fighting or a struggle or anything like that.”
Initially, police said in a press conference did not have a suspect but said they were confident they would track them down.
On Oct. 8, authorities issued a warrant for Gomez-Urbina’s arrest. The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force located and arrest him for the warrant on Masterson Pass, according to an Austin Police Department news release.
Austin police later revealed the night before the body was discovered, they pulled over a man named Enrique Gomez-Urbina about a mile away from the scene for failing to stop at a stop sign.
Inside his car, police found opened Modelo bottles, a Glock handgun and ammunition, according to the report.
Surveillance footage from the scene showed a car that matched the one Gomez-Urbina was driving. It pulled up around where the body was found, about an hour before he was stopped by police, FOX 7 reported.
Investigators also linked Gomez-Urbina to the crime based on evidence found at the scene. On the ground, police found more Modelo bottles and a spent cartridge case, from the same ammunition found in the car.
According to the U.S. Marshals, Gomez-Urbina tried to run away but was arrested and charged with murder and resisting arrest. Llamas-Yanez also tried to run but was caught, FOX 7 reported.
In an unrelated shooting incident, two more Mexico nationals are facing federal charges for allegedly firing guns in a crowded national forest east of Phoenix, CBS 42 News reported.
Luis Alfonso Hernandez Felix and Jose Romario Zazueta Valenzuela were arrested after U.S. Forest Service agents observed “a group of subjects shooting firearms recklessly into the air and down into the ground,” at Tonto National Forest, according to a criminal complaint filed Oct. 7 in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
The agents, accompanied by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations detention officers, zeroed in on two men bearing a Glock 9mm semi-automatic gun and a .45-caliber pistol. After interviewing the men, they found out the guns were borrowed from friends and that neither of the men were legally present in the U.S.
The subjects “were also observed discharging a firearm without a safe back-stop (a barrier) while large crowds of the public were exposed to gunfire in front of Hernandez Felix and Zazueta Valenzuela,” the complaint states.
Shooting off firearms is not only prohibited on the federal property, but the ERO officers told the men illegal aliens are not allowed to possess or discharge firearms in the United States.
The two face up to 10 years in prison after being charged with counts of possession of a firearm by an alien unlawfully present in the United States. They are also subject to removal from the country.
