It is Halloween October 31, 2008 in Lexington County, South Carolina and three men have just purchased a Mazda B-2000 pick up truck. The men are Juan Carrillo, Martin Teran and Josue Benitez and they are all members of the MS-13 gang and have traveled to South Carolina from Houston Texas on orders from Teran (1).
Three days later on November 2, 2008 51 year old Vindell Ramos is at home working on his car. Carrillo, Teran and Benitez approach Ramos, shoot him in the head and chest and flee in the Mazda B-2000. Juan Carrillo travels to Mexico while Teran and Benitez go home to Houston.
Fast forward eight months to June 23, 2009 in Southwest Houston. Juan Carrillo’s brother Roberto Carrillo along with Andres Nava-Maldonado, Xiomora Mendez-Rosales and a juvenile are in a Walgreens pharmacy parking lot. They are to meet with a man that has promised to sell them $30,000 worth of stolen Televisions for $6,500 (2).
Roberto Carrillo though has other plans. After paying the man for the stolen televisions Carrillo follows him to the front of the loaded rental truck, draws a gun and shoots the man in the back. As the man falls to the ground he manages to draw his own gun and shoot Carrillo in the chest. Carrillo makes his way to the rear of the rental truck and falls to the ground.
Houston Police Department officer Ruben Lopez arrives and approaches Carrillo who, upon seeing Lopez, twice fires at him. Officer Lopez returns fire and fatally wounds Carrillo (3). The man first shot by Carrillo is transported to Ben Taub hospital where he dies shortly after arrival. The slain man is Undercover Houston Police Department Officer Henry Canales.
The resulting investigation reveals that Juan Carrillo, Roberto Carrillo, Andres Nava-Maldonado and Xiomora Mendez-Rosales are in the country illegally. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials state that between 1990 and 1992 Nava-Maldonado was arrested in California for attempted murder, robbery, being under the influence of drugs, grand theft, assault and exhibiting a firearm (4). Yet 16 years later he is still leading a life of crime in Houston while being in the country illegally.
The Houston Police Department released information that determined Roberto Carrillo had been stopped and ticketed four times in the previous seven years. Houston Police Department policy does not allow an officer to inquire about a person’s citizenship or to fingerprint them if they have some form of identification on them. Each time Carrillo was stopped he had identification and on one occasion he had two drivers Licenses (5). If Carrillo had been fingerprinted there is the possibility that he would have been deported long before the events of June 23, 2009.
Officer Canales left behind a wife, son Henry Jr. age 15 and 17 year old daughter Stephanie. Our elected officials need to explain to the Canales family why illegal aliens should be allowed to roam our country, murder some of our finest and then have their fellow illegal aliens receive amnesty from a non-caring federal government. Someone should make Jerry Rivers (Geraldo Rivera) look the Canales family in the eye and explain how illegal aliens benefit our society.
Carl D. Goodson
www.carldgoodson.com
(1) www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0812/081216columbia.htm
(2) www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/txcn/houston/stories/khou090624_jj_cop-shooting-suspect-family-speaks-o.326de99.html
(3) http://blogs.chron.com/newswatch/2009/06/how_it_happened_killing_of_hou.html
(4) www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6498386.html
(5) Ibid
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