On July 2, 1995, in Dallas, Texas, a series of violent crimes unfolded, culminating in the death of 40-year-old Hispanic male, Jose Morales. That evening, Morales was using a public telephone booth when he was approached by Juan Rodriguez Chavez and his accomplice, Hector Fernandez. Chavez shot Morales, rifled through his pockets to steal his wallet containing $2 and some credit cards, and then shot him again before fleeing the scene.
Approximately forty minutes later, Chavez and Fernandez targeted Susan Ferguson, a female security guard, shooting and robbing her in an empty parking lot near the Stemmons Freeway. After shooting her, Chavez got back into his car and ran over her body. Shortly thereafter, they encountered Kevin Hancock, a male security guard standing guard at the Indian Ridge apartment complex, whom they shot, leaving him permanently paralyzed.
Ten minutes after the attack on Hancock, Chavez and Fernandez went to East Ninth Street, where they robbed and then shot three men—Jesus Briseno, Francisco Jaimes, and Alberto Guevara—at gunpoint. Briseno, a Hispanic male, was killed, while Jaimes and Guevara were wounded but later recovered from their injuries. One of the men reportedly tossed a wad of cash onto the hood of the car in an attempt to convince their attackers to spare them, but this was apparently ignored.
About an hour later, the pair went to Kidd Springs, where Chavez broke into the pickup truck of Alfonso Contreras, who was making out with his girlfriend, Maria Guadalupe Delgadillo-Pena. Contreras was shot after he refused to surrender his wallet, whereupon Chavez got into the truck and drove to an isolated road near Trinity River, dumping his victim's body along the way. After arriving at his intended destination, he forced the shocked Delgadillo-Pena to exit the vehicle and ran her over, but she survived. Chavez then ordered Fernandez to finish her off with his handgun, which he did.
The pair then drove the truck to Chavez's house, where they picked up some gasoline, and then went to an exit of the I-35, where they torched it. Two days after the shootings, Chavez got into an altercation at a parking lot of a tire shop on West Davis with two men, Antonio Rios and Manuel Duran. He threatened to shoot both of them if they did not move their car, and when one of them told him to go ahead and do it, Chavez got his gun out and killed both. As he attempted to drive away, he aimed his handgun from the driver's window and opened fire on Antonio Banda, who was standing in the front yard of his mother's house—Rios was struck by the gunfire and subsequently perished from his injuries.
The final attack occurred on July 23, when Juan Carlos Macias was shot and killed during a carjacking. Chavez was eventually apprehended, convicted, and sentenced to death for his crimes. He was executed by lethal injection in Texas on April 22, 2003.
