Assistant Chief of Police Ricardo DeAlejandro, a 36-year-old Hispanic male, was tragically killed on October 28, 1982, while working an undercover narcotics operation at a bar in Robstown, Texas. DeAlejandro, who had served with the Mathis Police Department for six years and was a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War, was shot by one of three men who entered the bar. These men were unrelated to the narcotics investigation that DeAlejandro was conducting.
The assailant was convicted o
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