Juan David Ortiz also was charged with aggravated assault in the case of the state’s key witness who detailed how she escaped from the ex-border agent.
Family members react during the prosecution’s closing argument in the capital murder trial of former U.S. Border Patrol supervisor Juan David Ortiz on Wednesday. Ortiz is accused of killing four women in September 2018.In 13 days in 2018, Juan David Ortiz picked up four sex workers in Laredo, took them to remote areas and shot them in the head or neck, leaving them to die, prosecutors told jurors Wednesday in closing arguments in his capital murder trial.
“Mr. Ortiz was a serial killer then, and now,” said Isidro R. “Chilo” Alaniz, the district attorney for Webb and Zapata counties. “That is what the evidence has proven.” Melissa Ramirez, 29, on Sept. 3, 2018, Claudine Anne Luera, 42, on Sept. 13 and Guiselda Alicia Hernandez, 35, and Janelle Ortiz, 28, hours before his arrest.
“That evidence should not have been admitted for your consideration,” Fuchs told the panel. “If one of us is denied a right, we are all denied a right. In this case, police denied his rights.”Perez said the main investigators used “improper persuasion, improper influence, and promises” to get the confession, citing the video in which one of the detectives told Ortiz that if he cooperated, they would “put in a good word” with the DA.
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