Murder of Santos Rodriguez
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On the morning of July 24, 1973, in Dallas, Texas, 30-year-old Dallas Police Officer Darrell Lee Cain murdered Santos Rodriguez, a 12-year-old Mexican-American child.[1] Officer Cain and Officer Roy R. Arnold were investigating reports of a burglary at a Fina gas station when they took Santos Rodriguez and his 13-year-old brother David Rodriguez from their home for an impromptu interrogation over the burglary. Cain shot Santos Rodriguez while conducting Russian roulette on the brothers in an attempt to force a confession from them.
Murder of Santos Rodriguez | |
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Location | Little Mexico, Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
Coordinates | 32°47′44″N 96°48′20″W |
Date | July 24, 1973 (1973-07-24) 3:00 a.m. CT |
Attack type | Child murder by shooting, police killing |
Victim | Santos Rodriguez, aged 12 |
Perpetrators | Officer Darrell Lee Cain (shooter) Officer Roy R. Arnold |
Motive | Attempt to extort false confession |
Convicted | Darrell Lee Cain |
Verdict | Guilty |
Convictions | Murder with malice
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Sentence | 5 years in prison, paroled after 2+1⁄2 years |
Cain was found guilty of murder with malice, and was sentenced to the minimum five years in prison. He was released on September 11, 1979, after serving the minimum two-and-a-half-year sentence.[2]