It’s Sunday April 23, 2010, 10:23 pm. I’m in bed. I must be at work the next morning at 7am. The phone rings. My brother Doug is on the other end of the line. It’s unusual for him to call me so late. I’m not asleep. But a nightmare is about to begin . . .
Dougie telephoned me regularly. Over the years, he’s called every few weeks or months. I could pick-up on the different tones in his voice. I knew instinctively knew how he was doing.
This call though was different; I couldn’t figure it out. Dougie never sounded like that before. Even so, the call didn’t unsettle me. Our conversation consisted of a few short words:
“Hey, what are you doing?” Dougie asked,
“Nothing, just lying in bed. What are you doing?”
“Just driving around.”
“OK.”
“I just called to tell you I love you.”
“Well, I love you too.”
“Bye.”
“Bye.”
That was the call. We usually have more to say, but neither of us are particularly talkative on the phone. I turned to my wife and said “that was strange.”
Doug is my little brother, or more correctly, my younger brother. He’s six-foot tall and weighs about 210. We’ve always been close.
Every year after I graduated college, Dougie and I would go backpacking through Colorado or New Mexico. Back in 1990, we made a 21-hour trek from West Texas to Yellowstone. We backpacked in the Bridger Wilderness Area of the Wind River Range south-east of Yellowstone. The Wind River Range’s terrain is straight out of a science fiction movie.
My youngest daughter had just turned six; it was her first backpacking trip with Dad and Uncle Dougie. My grandson turned six this month. I hope we’ll be taking him on his first backpacking trip this summer. Then again, it may be a very long time before Dougie smells the air of freedom again.
The second call came at one AM. It was Mom. I instantly knew her world had changed.
Mom’s didn’t sound that stressed when she told me Dad was bleeding is his chest following heart surgery. Dad’s chest was opened up three times in 24 hours. The first two to perform the needed repairs and the second two to find the source of the bleeding. When the surgeons were done, they’d used 50 units of blood. That was in 1996 and Dad is still with us.
Unfortunately, Dad is living through a new kind of torment.
Mom, simply said: Ken, Doug has shot and killed two men. We don’t know what happened or why. He’s in his car driving around and calling people. We are very afraid of what he might do. He has called an attorney who is supposed to meet him this afternoon.”
And so the story begins. It’s not only Doug’s story. It’s the tale of a crushing blow delivered to our extended family.
My older brother was on an excursion with friends when he received his call. While he was many yards away from his friends, they heard his wailing and approached him thinking he had somehow mysteriously been hurt.
My older brother received a call and wailed. Doug was never successful in reaching my eldest brother. I think Mom called him.
Until you live through this kind of a nightmare, the reality of such a call cannot be fully comprehended. But that’s exactly what you have to do: make sense of the incredible. And so the journey began . . .
[This is the first of a three-part series. Click here to read part two.]
You sucked me in real good, I can’t wait for part two.
Why did u stoped writing ur brother story ? Tell us how the court went for him ? Details of the nightmare ur family n the death persons family have
So now it’s cliffhangers. You succeeded. Sam bat time, same bat channel, tomorrow.
Why is everyone talking about this like it’s a suspenseful piece of fiction? If this is a true story, then it’s a dead-serious recounting of how at least four lives were irrevocably altered – the two men, the narrator’s brother, and the narrator himself.
Because it’s still an absorbing story that reads (is written) like fiction. No one’s buying popcorn, but it’s hard to deny that after reading the first installment, most readers will want to know what happened.
Not knowing a thing about the story, I’m hoping the brother defended himself against two attackers and didn’t know how to handle the situation in the aftermath. As with so many TTAG posts, I learn more than I expected to when clicking on them. So like it or not, I’m looking forward to Part II.
It is a true story. (Spoiler: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/04/26/2142872/fort-worth-man-arrested-in-slaying.html)
I assumed it was true. And I can see the reasoning behind posting the story here. Though I read the story at the link, I’m not going to Google it until I’ve read the subsequent post(s) here by the author.
Now, as Paul Harvey would have said, for the rest of the story….
I just hope that his brother didn’t get in trouble or go to jail for shooting the two bad guys.
Dad, I love you.
Grandma has a picture of Doug holding me in that same way (maybe even same bowl) when I was Scarlett’s age.
Yes, it is the same bowl.
Story is true. Doug is my second cousin.
Doug is now convicted of murder, 47 years.
Prosecution proved to Jury that Doug was using under influence of meth, alcohol, and weed.
I’d like to hear more from Ken.
He had been my neighbor for years before this happened. It is true.
I worked with Doug as a respiratory therapist in Dallas at the time of the murder. He actually was my preceptor for the position. He was exactly as his brother described him. He was a gun aficionado and being from Louisiana(Sportsman Paradise) So was I. He loved to grill for us at work and affectionately called me Whitney Houston. I hated to see his story take this path.
I lived with Doug, years before this happened. My kids did give him the little Halloween toys the police officers found. Doug was a sweet guy that liked collecting weird things, that doesn’t make him a psychopath. He did collect guns, and he loved to go shooting, but I was never afraid of him. He took care of neonatal babies, he loved children and dogs. My kids adored him. Just before this happened, we had gotten in contact with each other, when I learned of the death of our dog “George” and he told me he was going to move from Clover Lane, so he could fix it up to sell it. I told him not to bother, that folks would want the lot and not the house. I wish he had listened to me…. I drove down Clover Lane a few years ago… the house had been razed and a new house built. I really, really wished he had listened to me and he wouldn’t have found himself in the awful situation. I think about Doug a lot and I hope he is ok. He should have handled this all differently, but who knows what is going through someone’s mind, especially when they are under the influence. I agree that Doug should have been punished, but I think his punishment was excessive and I hope he gets parole in 2033, but I hope he gets out sooner. He really isn’t violent… funny with a weird sense of humor… trusting, generous, and a man that needed help… he was sad and alone and imbibed too much… I wish I had reached out more to him, before all of this happened.
I guess I will now find out the details of a situation I didn’t fully know, but did pray about.
Doug is my first cousin, and he’s an awesome dude. He was prosecuted by an over-zealous DA who threw the book at him, even though Doug shot the two men inside his own house, while they were trying to rob him.
…Then, if that weren’t bad enough, evidence was supressed by the prosecution that the two “victims” were parolees with records for roberies and violent crimes, who were both well-documented members of very violent latino street gangs.!!!!
…The whole case is bull pooh.!!! Doug has been railroaded from day one. Instead of being locked up, he should be immediately pardoned by the governor, and set free.!!!
…My mom told me that his immediate family members have been threatened by the authorities, and told to be quiet about the conviction.!!!!
…Does anybody else want to argue that we don’t need a border wall.!!!!????
Doug’s a great man and his family have been faithful members at Northside Baptist Church in Odessa for many years.!!! His mom, Helen is my dad’s sister, and Doug’s mom has been totally devastated by the wrongful incarceration of her youngest son Doug.
…The only thing Doug was really guilty of was having Meth in his blood, panicking, and leaving the scene. The police so far seem to be very sympathetic with our family about this, since Doug has been a model prisoner, and since the two,” victims” in the case were hard core jailhouse felons, who probably should not have been out on parole in the first place.!!!
…Doug had been moving into a new rental house in Ft. Worth, and he didn’t know the neighborhood well. He made the mistake of letting the two men help him move his stuff in the house, after they had already seen he had several guns. He had no idea about the men’s long prison and criminal records, even though they were covered with jailhouse tatoo’s.
…Once it became late, and the two men thought he was drunk, and he asked them to leave, they refused, and tried to jump him. Doug still had his loaded AR-15 in the back room, so he ran back there, and shot them both in turn, as they tried to charge him, and overpower him.
…Doug paniced and left the house, and did not turn himself in until he had talked to friends, and an attorney, and agreed to turn himself in the next day.
…I attended a hearing several months ago, in Tarrant County, in which a private investigator hired by the state admitted freely that the state had completely botched the entire case.!!!!
.The investigator said he had been denied access to the parole records of the two” victims”, prior to Doug’s trial, and that he felt these records would have definitely completely changed the outcome of the trial.!!!! He further stated that there was a great abundance of evidence that the two,”victims” were extremely violent and hardened criminals, who had long records of doing robberies, assaults, and at least one murder.!!!! He further stated that both men were well-documented by police to have been active members of extremely violent latino street and prison gangs.!!!!
…The private investigator further stated that he had further uncovered a statement by a very experienced local police officer that had knowledge of statements made by a confidential informant that the two’,” victims” had made statements prior to the incident that they were planning to do a robbery in the area, which is exactly what they tried to do to Doug.!!!!
…Our family needs alot of support, encouragement and prayers that the Lord can do a miracle to help Doug get free again. He has been in prison seven years now on this trumped-up charge , and this case is a perfect example of why our borders need to be completely sealed, to stop the flood of violent criminals flooding across our borders.
…This case is yet another perfect example of what is wrong with the Texas Criminal Justice System in this state. We are asking that each of you be in prayer for my cousin, Douglas Kirk, and that Almighty God will grant the authorities in this case the wisdom to bring this case to a swift and just conclusion, with the immediate prison release of my first cousin Douglas Kirk. Thank you all for your prayers, and your time. We love you in Jesus, James Walker.
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I remember Doug and I always thought he was weird ….he was at a party with a bunch of my friends and came out on mushrooms swinging a sword around scaring the shit out of everyone ! I never liked his vibe so I always stayed away from him at my friends …..
First of all that was my dad and uncle AND NONE OF YALL WERE THERE AND NONE OF YALL SEEN THIS MAN YALL CLAIM WAS SUCH A GOOD PERSON AND HIS EVIL LOOKING FACE AND ACTUALLY YALL DUMB ASSES KIRK CAME TO OUR HOUSE AND ASKED MY DAD AND UNCLE FOR HELP I WAS OUTSIDE I WAS THERE ! AND HE HAD BEEN RENTED THAT HOUSE OUT FOR MONTHS BEFORE MOVING IN. YALL DIDNT SEE THE INSIDES OF ANYTHING I WAS IN COURTT I SEEN ALL THE HORRIBLE DISGUSTING STUFF THE KIRK HAD IN HIS PREVIOUS HOME ALONG WITH DEVIL SIGNS ALL OVER HIS WALLAS CHOKING CHARLIE HANGING BY A ROPE. NOT ONLY THAT THE DAY OF HIS MOVE IN THAT MORNING HE SEEN MY DAD ALHPONSO OUTSIDE WITH ALL OF THE KIDS PLAYING AROUND WE WERE ALL OUTSIDE HAVING FUN BEING THE HAPPY FAMILY WE ONCE WERE. JUST BECAUSE THEY HAD A RECORD AND KIRK DID NOT DOESNT MEAN JACK SHIT. ALL THESE LIES FLYING AROUND AND THIS DUMB ASS STORY HIS BROTHER WASNT EVEN THERE !!!!!!! I HAD TO SEE EVERYTHING THE DAY AFTER WHEN WE WERE LOOKING FOR MY DAD HE LITERALLY SEEN ALL OF US OUTSIDEEEEE WORRIED SICK HE LITERALLY COMFORTABLY WENT INSIDE THAT SICK HOUSE WHERE MY DAD AND UNCLE LAID DEAD AND WAS GOING TO TRY TO CLEAN HIS MESS UP. HE LITERALLY SAT THERE IN THAT HOUSE DOING GOD KNOWS WHAT TO MY DAD AND UNCLES BODIES. AND THE BORDER ? WE ARE PROUD MEXICAN AMERICANS AND KRIK TOOK MY FATHER FROM ME INWAS A DADDYS GIRL THAT WAS MY BESTFRIEND MY LIFE MY KING MY EVERYTHING AND HE RIPPED IT AWAY FROM ME !!! IT HAPPENED WHEN I WAS 11 IM NOW 23 AND IM STILL DEEPLY TRAUMATIZED AND I HOPE GOD FORGIVES ME FOR THIS BUT I HOPE HE ROTS IN THE DEEPEST PART OF THAT PRISON HE IS IN ! NO ONE SEEN THOSE PICTURES ALONG WITH HIS OWN FRIENDS WHO TESTIFIED AGAINST HIM AND SAID THEMSELVES HE WAS NOT ALL THERE. MY DAD AND UNCLE MAY HAVE HAD RECORDS AND BEEN IN PRISON BUT THEY WERE THE BEST TEO SETS OF MEXICANS ANYONE CAN COME ACROSS MY DAD WAS THE HANDY MAN OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD EVERYONE LOVED HIM. MY DAD GOT OUT OF PRISON AND CHANGED HIS LIFE AROUND JUST HOW YALL ARE SAYING YALL WANT KIRK TO FIND GOD AND TO BE A BETTER PERSON IS EXACTLY WHAT MY DAD DID. YALL MOTHERFUCKERS KNOW NOTHING AND IT ANGERS ME. THIS STORY IS STUPID ASS SHIT. HOW ARE YOU EVEN GOING TO WROTE A STORY IF YOU WEREN’T EVEN IN COURT! DOD YALL FORGET TO MENTION THE POOR OLD LADY HE HAD TIED IN THE FUCKING CLOSET !!! WHO ALSO TESTIFIED !!!! WE WERENT ALLOWED TO SPEAK OF ANYTHING FOR SAFETY REASONS OF OUR FAMILY. THE NERVE. 🥺🥺🥺🥺😩😩 MY DAD AND UNCLE NEVER TRIED TO ROB HIM. THEY HAD MORE THEN WHAT HE HAD. I MAY NOT KNOW WHAT WENT DOWN IN THAT HOUSE DURING THE TIME BUT I DO KNOW MY DADDY AND MY UNCLE PETE. THEY ALSO BELIEVED THAT KIRK WENT INSIDE AND WATCHED ME AND MY MOM SLEEP BECAUSE WHEN WE WOKE UP MY DADS RECLINER WAS FACING TOWARDS US, THERE WAS A BOTTLE OF VODKA WHICH HE DIDNT EVEN DRINK VODKA NEXT TO THE RECLINER ALONG WITH A BOX OF PIZZA. NO WAY IN HELL MY DAD WOULD HAVE SAT THERE AND WATCHED US LIKE THAT. YALL ALL ARE PATHETIC WHO ARE SAYING MY DAD AND JNCLE ARE BAD PEOPLE. YALL KNOW JACK SHIT AND IM WILLING TO TELL MY STORY CAUSE I WAS THE ONE WHO HAD TO SEE MY DAD AND UNCLES LIFELESS BODY IN COURT AND IF YALL WOULD OF SEEN KIRKS OLD HOME YALL WOULD OF SEEN THE RED FLAG AND ANYONE WHOS BEEN IN THAT HOUSE AND STILL BELIEVES HE WASNT CRAZY THEN YALL ARE JUST AS SICK. FUCK THIS STORY FUCK YALL WHO ARE CALLING MY DAD AND UNCLE ROBBERS , AND SUCH. HE SLAUGHTERED THEM AND HIS STORY BEFORE HE SAID THEY TRIED TO ROB HIM WAS HE KILLED THEM BECAUSE THE DEMONS TOLD HOM TO DO SO AND ONC EBE FOUND OUT THEY WERE CONSIDERING DEATH PENALTY THATS WHEN THE SICK POS DECIDED TO SAY THEY WERE TRYING TO ROB HIM. HIS FIRST STATEMENT NEVER SAID ANYTHING THAT HE WAS BEING ROBBED. SO KNOW YOUR FUCKING FACTS BEFORE SPEAKING ON THEM. SO MANY RED FLAGS OF KIRK EVEN IN HIS PICTURES THOSE EVIL EYES SAY IT ALL . AND YALLS KIDS PROBABLY LIKED HIM CAUSE HE WAS MORE THEN LIKELY A FUCKING PEDO. AND SHAME ON HIS BROTHER FOR TRYING TO MAKE OT ABOUT KIRK. KIRK IS STILL ALIVE AND GETTING FREE MEALS EVERY DAY AND A BED TO LAY IN AND FAMILY TO VISIT. MY DAD AND UNCLE ARE DEAD … NONE OF YALL KNOW. YALL WERENT THE ONES LIVING NEXT DOOR. ILL FOREVER ASK MYSELF WHY COULDNT WE HEAR THE GUNS SHOTS NO ONE HEARD ANYTHING. IT WAS A SILENT DEADLY CRIME AND IDK HOW. HE HAD BOXES OF GUNS AND IT WASNT NO DAMN COLLECTIONS THEY WERE BOXED UP IN HIS GARAGE. I REMEMBER THAT WHOLE DAY AND ILL FOREVER BE TORN APART. LIKE I SAID MY DAD WAS MY KING. MY BEST FRIEND WHO ATTENDED ALL MY SCHOOL ACTIVITES WHO BRANG ME LUNCH EVERY DAY AT SCHOOL , WHO TUCKED ME IN BED AT NIGHT , TO YALL HE WAS A CRIMINAL TO ME HE WAS MY SUPER HERO. DUDE HE DIDNT EVEN ALLOW MY MOM TO SPANK US. HE WAS OVER PROTECTIVE HE JUST GOT OFF WORK WHEN KIRK CAME AND FUCKED UP MY WHOLE FAMILY. WE NEVER BEEN THE SAME SINCE WE MEVER FOUND CLOSURE WE NEVER MADE PEACE INSTEAD WE HAD TO DEAL WITH IT THE HARD WAY WE HAD TO JUST EVENTUALLLY GET NUMB AND TILL THIS DAY I CRY OUT FOR MY DAD 💔💔💔💔 NONE OF YALL DONT KNOW HOW WE FEEL. 💔🥺🥺 GOD I MISS MY DADDY I JUST WANT MY DADDY BACK PLEASE GOD. WHY HIM WHY KIRK HE COULDNT EVEN LOOK AT US IN THE EYE. WHY MY DAD WHY DID YOU COME TO MY HOME AND MESS WITH US. WHY DID YOU HAVE THAT HOUSE RENTED OUT FOR SO LONG BUT CHOSE TO COME WHEN MY UNCLE DECIDED TO MOVE WITH US. AND YALL FAIL TO MENTION ABOUT THE COMPANY HIS FAMILY HAD IN OUR HOME TOWN WHAT A DAMN COINCIDENCE. I PRAY OVER YALLS UGLY HEARTS TOWARDS MY DADDY AND UNCLE. BECAUSE THEY ARE THE VICTIMS. THEY HAD FAMILY AND KIDS . MY KIDS WILL NEVER GET TO MEET THEIR PAPA INSTEAD ONLY HERE STORIES. 💔 THATS IT THATS ALL I HAD TO SAY REST IN PEACE TO MY DADDY AND UNCLE. ONLY GOD KNOWS WHAT HAPPEEND AND ITS ALL IN HIS HANDS. For those who have questions feel free to ask me and for those with ugly comments don’t even bother cause God don’t like ugly and believe I am one of his favorites
The fact you sit here trying to speak on your families behalf and are trying to turn it into a racial matter should deplete your story. If this would have been a person of color, brown or black, who’d of pulled a stunt like this, the world wouldn’t be wanting to even hear the families side of things. Yes he was a church going white man, that very well may be one fact about him. But he was also a meth head. He invited those men into his home seeking help to move in. If those men had infact been trying to rob his home, again; as you’ve stated, why was he just moving in that day? I’m a Texas woman who stands by her second amendment as well, I can agree that had someone infact been trying to break into my home I too would have shot. But why didn’t he call the police and for medical attention if his intent wasn’t murder? He fled the scene after the fact. He started calling family saying his “goodbyes” as any criminal in the wrong would have if they knew they had few extra moments. His first initial statement was that “the demons made him do it, he didn’t want to” but typically someone having a “psychotic break” wouldn’t think to start calling people and telling them they love them, their suppose to not be lucid enough to know what their doing, so driving around trying to call people just to say “I love you” implies that he knew what he did and by him not calling law enforcement, even after the family had asked where they were; that he had no remorse.Your only argument on the situation is that because they were two “gang banging Mexicans, your white brother/cousin/uncle etc deserves freedom.” Because he “was a good man who was loved by both family and friends, who loved God and loved his life, a man who is the ‘victim’ of the system” you feel he should get off for taking, not one but TWO of someone elses father, son, uncle, brother, lover, etc. You know the saying “an eye for an eye”, while I’m in no position to speak on the matter as to what his punishment should be, he should be punished. Weather he was a spiteful racist, was high and out of his mind, “was acting in self defense” (which if truely was the case, the police should have been called after he did whatever he had to do to protect himself), he took two lives, he needs to at least do time. If he truely was too inebriated and suffering a psychotic break he still shouldn’t be set free he should be locked up some place where he can’t hurt anyone else, or himself, and can be watched and taken care of. Meth makes people do all kinds of crazy things, but killing two people is a bit too far of a stretch to blame on just drugs.
Kirk denied my dads help the first time.. but then came back and took the help.. I was right there. When he came to talk to my dad. I remember everything before I went to lay down with my mom. Understand that I am hurt , lost and still confused. No matter what happened that night I know for an exact fact that they didn’t try to rob him. My dad made money , he had his own home , big TVs , nice furniture a working vehicle and he needed for nothing especially to try to rob our neighbor knowingly he has his kids next door , and knowingly that we were a house full of children. My dad and uncle would never. They were all good that night… I’m tell y’all idc who don’t believe me. But I know my dad and I know my uncle.. and even so y’all are saying they were trynna rob them like don’t y’all think it’s common sense for anyone to rob their neighbor like that !?!?!?!! Like I said. My daddy was the neighborhood handy man every one relied on him to fix things around their house. During the whole thing that day on April 24th Our house was FILLED with everyone on all three streets crying and hurt over my dad. They didn’t know my uncle cause he had just moved in with us like a few days before the murder. But my dad he would never hurt anyone. Maybe he had messed up records for robbery but just cause of that they took advantage and said that and even so like seriously he had to kill them ? The day he got out of prison his whole life changed for HIS KIDS. My last comment I don’t regret what I said but also I wrote it out of anger that has been build up for 11 years. Y’all are crying out for him to be released so just fuck the victims family right ? All of y’all who talk down on my dad and uncle are selfish and ugly and GOD DONT LIKE UGLY. Y’all go to church you know how many murders go to church rapists , serial killers. Just cause someone devoted their life to church doesn’t mean they are very godly like. There’s many Christians who are bad. Y’all are horrible human beings to just care about him even thought that’s y’all’s cousin or whatever he killed two men who had kids and family’s who never intended on stealing. But of course… my dad just had to be a friendly handy man of our neighborhood and help this man out… I wish he never did. I wish he would had just stayed home in bed but who knew. All those guns right next to us kids. Kirk was bound to kill anyone. It just so happened to be my daddy and uncle 💔😭🥺
Doug Kirk shot those two men in his own home while they were trying to jump him and steal his guns. They were both well documented violent ex-convict gang members who had previously broken into Dougs house, stole his metal detector and pawned it.
…It is also well documented that the two men, Beza and Diaz had told people in the area that they were planning to rob Doug’s house a second time. The night of they shooting, they waited till Dougs other friends left, before they tried to jump him. Fortunately Doug had a loaded AR-15 in the back bedroom, to defend himself when the two gang-bangers tried to jump him. What Beza and Diaz got that night was Texas justice. Plain and simple.!!!!!
Yeah yeah whatever. Gang bangers. Either way like i said it’s in GODS HANDS AND YOU BRING IT ALL UP AGAIN How old are you ? You weren’t there you don’t know a damn thing just what other people and his attorney none of us know what went on in that damn house. But robbery ain’t one of them. So whatever you say is just non sense good day 👏🏽Y’all believe whatever y’all want to and we will believe what we know the truth is.
My dad was already dead when someone broke into that house. So miss me with that bullshit. You are trying to come to this blog with this is just childish. Along with the demons he said that told him To kill my dad and uncle but soon as they said death penalty he said that stupid stuff about then trynna rob him. Stop talking about my dead father and uncle before God takes care of you for it. HE IS STILL ALOVE gtfo racist sack of shit.
You know what IM NOT DONE whew thank GOD for screenshots cause what??? They previously robbed him. The same day he first came to his new house was the same day he killed my dad and uncle so please RESPOND AND EXPLAIN TO ME EXACTLY HOW TWO DEAD BODIES ROBBED HIM ? That happened after and we had nothing to do with it. And because of THAT his fucking family decided to throw out carpet with my dads blood and uncle blood right next to our house. Literally they dumped it and we had to deal with smelling my fathers blood every time we stepped out until they fucking took it and dumped it . You don’t know shit and this just proved it. Get your facts straight. I’m baffled right now actually that such grown man can come on here 11 years later and try to throw shade and dirt on my dead relatives. Your life must be miserable 😖 and I’ll be praying for you sir. Cause your facts are all wrong. Every single one except my dad WHO LIKE I SAID WAS A FRIENDLY HANDY MAN OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD offered to help him Kirk turned him down then later came and accepted his offered even said he had some beer and y’all all know HARD WORKING MEXICANS WHO PLANT YOUR FLOWERS , CUT YOUR GRASS , BUILD YALLS HOUSES AND SO MUCH MORE LIKE TO HAVE A FEW GOLD BEERS. So they went and took my uncle along and my cousin. My cousin did help and got tired came home and the other two stayed. Witnesses said they didn’t hear ANY ARGUEMENT OR FIGHTING but randomly heard 5 pops and thought it was something else. He tortured my dad and uncle. I had to see their bodies in court. My dads faces was blasted off. He shot him in the back they were laid close to the entry way into the living room and one by a room that was FILLED WITH KNIVES SWORDS MATCHETES AND OTHER WEIRD ASS WEAPONS LAID OUT ON THE BED. THAT MAN WAS GOING TO TORTURE MY INNOCENT FATHER AND UNCLE. DONT TRY TO TELL ME ANYTHING CAUSE YOU WERENT THERE TO SEE THOSE PICTURES !!!!!! They had shit on their bodies. When he went back to try to wrap up the bodies in TARP that’s when my mom asked him where they were and he literally acted like he didn’t know who they were. Whole entire time they are freaking dead right next to us. They were EX CONVICTS. My dad was no gang banger. And he paid his dues to the lord and changed his life around so y’all can’t sit there and use his past against him. Y’all can’t sit there and call my dad and uncle gang bangers anymore cause that was long ago back befor I was even born. Y’all sitting here saying y’all hope god forgives him for his sins and for killing them well guess what my father asked God to forgive him and to better him for his kids when he was released. He kept all the bad from us. Every family has their own problems but doing anything that could possibly harm his kids or his wife he would never and my uncle loved his baby sister and her kids. He would have never laid our life’s down on the line. Your cousin coiled of shot up a whole store Bc his demons. And as sad as I am about it and messed up my life was cause of it I’m glad he didn’t hurt any kids or us in such ways. I hope and pray you find it in your heart to even sit there and think of us the kids who were hurt and traumatized. But you’re racist and hate Mexicans so you don’t give a shit about us…