Questions linger about Fred Gomez Carrasco’s escape attempt and the killings that followed.
Fifty years ago last month, prisoner Fred Gomez Carrasco and an accomplice, Rudolfo Dominguez, died in a shoot-out during an attempted prison break at the Huntsville “Walls” Unit.. It was a bloody and tragic end to an 11-day siege that captured the nation’s attention. Questions about prison policies that allowed Carrascohave never been fully answered. A review of the siege and the events leading up to it is necessary if we are to learn from it and move ahead.
It’s not just prison officials and law enforcement that must confront their actions for their role in the Carrasco episode; those of us in the Chicano community who tacitly supported Carrasco also need to come to terms with our defense and championing of a drug dealer. My family, like many others in the community, didn’t escape the scourge of heroin addiction that Fred Carrasco helped facilitate.
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