The SIU identified the dead man as Alberto Ayala-Guerrero and confirmed that he was wanted in Houston on a murder charge in connection to the shooting death of his sister-in-law
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Ontario’s police oversight agency is probing the puzzling death of an alleged American murderer in the small Ontario city of Brockville, tucked along the U.S.-Canada border about 100 kilometres south of Ottawa.
In an initial news release published on the weekend, the Special Investigations Unit, the agency that investigates any police interaction involving a death, did not specify why Brockville police had been chasing the man, only referring to him as a “person of interest.
By car, Brockville is roughly a 26-hour drive from Houston, where, on the morning of July 13, Mr. Ayala-Guerrero’s estranged wife and sister-in-law were getting ready to go to work at the airport when he allegedly came toward them with a gun, according to charging papers filed in Harris County District Court.
Mr. Ayala-Guerrero let go of his ex-wife and chased his sister-in-law. When he got inside the apartment, he allegedly shot Ms. Dominguez in the face and tried to shoot her husband, but his gun jammed.Eight days later, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office signed off on murder charges and asked for a US$150,000 bond. Houston police told the public he might driving a white Kenworth dump truck with no licence plates.But investigators now believe he made his way north in a Honda Civic.
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