(TX) Pregnant rancher kills illegal immigrant intruder
Jan. 18, 2002, 9:52AM

Pregnant rancher kills illegal immigrant intruder
Associated Press

SAN ANTONIO — An undocumented immigrant looking for something to eat in a
stranger’s kitchen was shot and killed by a pregnant woman in her Edwards
County ranch home, border officials said.

Police believe Gonzalo Lopez Castaneda, 32, and two other immigrants, were
looking for food in the woman’s kitchen Tuesday when he was shot once in the
chest with a hunting rifle.

Lopez had worked on an area ranch and was returning there after going to
Mexico for Christmas, Edwards County Sheriff Don Letsinger said.

The ranch where he was killed is about 50 miles from the Texas-Mexico
border.

The case will be turned over to the district attorney.

The sheriff and Mexican consular officials said the woman woke from a nap to
find two men trying to cut through a window screen and a third, Lopez,
standing in her kitchen after apparently kicking in the back door.

San Antonio Attorney J.A. Garcia, who represents the Mexican Consulate, said
the two other immigrants told him they overhead Lopez and the woman seconds
before the shooting.

“They could hear Lopez telling the woman they were hungry as she became
hysterical,” Garcia told the San Antonio Express-News for today’s editions.
“They heard the lone shot and both ran.

“It is an unfortunate incident where another undocumented alien is looking
for food and made the mistake of actually breaking into a home.”

The two other men were being held as material witnesses in Edwards County
Jail.

The shooting, which happened about 80 miles northeast of Del Rio, near
Rocksprings, marks the latest casualty in the region plagued by violence
involving immigrants and Texans trying to protect their property.

“We are aware there is tension out there,” said Dennis Smith, a spokesman
for the Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector. “We tell (property owners) not to
take the law into their own hands.”

At least eight times in the past three years, area residents have shot
immigrants. Two have died.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.h…politan/1216997

Don’t mess with Texas women!!!!! There’s an old story about how a husband
would have grounds for divorce in most states if his wife took a shot at
him. In Texas, if a woman shoots at her husband, he won’t need a divorce.

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