SAPD Captures Super 8 Shooter Following Week Long Search
SAN ANGELO, TX – After a week of searching the SAPD has captured the Super 8 shooter.
According to court documents, on Apr. 18, officers with the San Angelo Police Department were dispatched to the Super 8 at the 400 block of W. Ave L for the report of a shooting victim.
When the officers arrived they found a victim who had been shot in the lower leg. The victim was taken to Shannon Medical Center for treatment.
Officers reviewed surveillance footage from the Super 8 and spotted a male wearing dark clothing walk to the room, pull out a handgun from his sweater pocket, and discharging a the weapon into the window of the room. He then fled the scene in a silver BMW convertible with a black stripe. The affidavit states that the car was positively identified by police through SAPD data base. The vehicle was located and recovered.
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LONDON, ONT. Members of the London Police Services Emergency Response Unit have arrested a man wanted for second-degree murder in a stabbing death in east London. On Monday night police responded to an address on Hilton Place and found a man who had been stabbed. Alex Pacheco, 28, was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Following an investigation police charged two men with second-degree murder. Jessie Aaron McConnell was arrested soon after the stabbing but a second suspect, Jonathon Ysebaert, 27, remained at large. Thursday night police caught up with Ysebaert in Mitchell and placed him under arrest.
LONDON, ONT. One of two men charged in London’s latest homicide recently served time for an attack that left a variety store owner fighting for his life back in 2017. In July of 2018 Jesse McConnell, 26, pleaded guilty to the Oct. 2017 attack on storeowner Roger El Shorafa and was sentenced to three and half years in prison. Now McConnell is facing a second-degree murder charge in the death of 28-year-old Alex Pacheco. In the 2017 attack, El Shorafa was left in critical condition. The community rallied together at the time to support his recovery. Among the efforts were a GoFundMe and financial support from local restaurant chain Shelby’s Food Express.
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Charges against a man in a fatal London stabbing have stirred memories of a notorious crime for which he was previously convicted – the brutal beating of a downtown-area shopkeeper.
Jessie Aaron McConnell, 26, is charged with second-degree murder in the homicide of Alex Pacheco, a construction worker and young father of two who was killed Monday night, London police say.
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The homicide comes four years after a 2017 attack on Rajaie (Roger) El Shorafa, who was badly beaten outside his store, Horton Variety at 216 Horton St. El Shorafa suffered life-threatening head injuries on the evening of Oct. 21, 2017 after asking a group of people who were blocking his store’s entrance to move.