Post by Scumhunter on May 28, 2015 15:52:04 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: amw.com archives)
Fugitive Profile as of May 28th, 2015 (based on Austin Police Department (APD) website):
AKA: Arturo Bueno Rodriguez/ Humberto Bueno
Race: Hispanic
DOB: 12-20-1980 (34 years old)
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 140 Lbs.
Tattoos: Left arm and Upper left arm.
TIPS: Homicide investigators are asking anyone with information concerning this case to please call the APD homicide tip line at (512)477-3588 or the Homicide Detail at (512) 974-5210. The Homicide unit can also be contacted by Email.
Arturo Bueno has been wanted since 2008. He was on AMW's website. His archive no longer works so I don't know if he was simply a web-exclusive or aired on tv. In any case, he is still listed on the Austin PD's websie so he is likely still wanted. Below is a news article description of his case. Unfortunately it cuts off to a link to read the rest of article, which of course doesn't work, but I think the general gist of the case is in the first few paragraphs anyway:
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (KXAN) – A cold-case homicide continues to frustrate Austin police detectives as it stirs up old grief for a young man who was there the night his best friend was shot and killed.
Nearly five years ago, Ebby Leal-Monroy was steps away when he heard the rifle shot that took the life of 17 year-old Luis Jesus Lopez.
“I try not to go back to that day. I don’t like talking about it,” said Leal-Monroy recently from his new home in Huntsville.
But the now, 22 year-old man agreed to share his side of what happened Aug. 12, 2008, with KXAN in hopes someone, somewhere knows where the suspect is.
“We were out for a stroll,” he said, acknowledging he and Lopez were “just being kids.”
Leal-Monroy said he was a few steps ahead of Lopez when his friend told him to run after apparently seeing a man behind a shrub. He recalls hearing a shot and his friend crying out. Survival instinct kicked in and he took off, not looking back.
Up to that point, neither boy had been in major prior trouble with the law. But the police report said that evening the boys had been casing vehicles in the neighborhood to steal a stereo. Lopez used his cell phone to shine light into the car, looking for a specific type of stereo. The teen had told his friend to act as lookout.
Newly released police dash cam video shows a frightened Leal-Monroy sprinting down the road around 11 p.m. that night. An Austin police officer on patrol on East Rundberg Lane responded after hearing the crack of a single gunshot.
When the officer got to an alley off Crown Ridge Road — really just driveway for a line of small duplexes — Lopez was lying face down, unmoving. He’d been shot in the spine and was declared dead minutes later.
The black-and-white video also shows Leal-Monroy having returned to the alley with police, crying out in anguish and shock, pleading for someone to help.
It’s believed the shot came from behind a shrub near the single level apartment belonging to the suspect, Arturo Bueno.
Thoughts? I know Luis and his friend's actions shouldn't be condoned, but neither should killing him. Bueno allegedly chose to take the law into his own hands, and now a teenager is dead because of it. Hopefully this is finally the year he's taken in.
austintexas.gov/article/homicide-suspect-arturo-bueno
www.txwclp.org/2013/05/unsolved-murder-still-evokes-emotion/
UPDATE: As of July 21st, 2018, a search of Travis County's online criminal court records still shows Bueno as having an active warrant: www.traviscountytx.gov/district-clerk/online-case-information
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