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The First 48 - Season 29 - Episode 10: Birthday Party Nightmare
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00:01This program documents actual homicide investigations.
00:05Criminal charges are often dropped or reduced,
00:07and all suspects shown are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
00:30We need help. We need help. We need help.
00:38The heart rate is a party hall at the back.
00:41Okay, here we go one more time.
00:44Hey, your husband is busy.
00:46Edie, I have it all taken from here.
00:50My husband is on the first desk.
00:53I need an ambulance now, please. I need an ambulance.
00:57They're already on the way.
00:58He's going to somebody, what? He's bleeding too much.
01:02Dono! Dono!
01:04I'm gonna be awake.
01:06He's breathing. He's breathing.
01:08He's breathing.
01:10Ayúdanos, ayúdanos, ayúdanos, ayúdanos.
01:16Call the police! The someone's been shot!
01:19Yes!
01:24Where's the guy's gun?
01:30No!
01:30Make sure to lock everybody down here.
01:32Did you guys see anything?
01:34No.
01:39I'm gonna take care of them, okay?
01:40No!
01:41Give me a trauma here.
01:42What else are you guys gonna take?
01:43A trauma here.
01:44Okay.
01:45I'm gonna take care of them.
01:50Stop, but I'm so sorry.
01:54Wait, I'm sorry.
01:54Police have a shooting victim that's shown up at the clave trip.
01:57They thought they were shot at a party.
02:00There's a third person who showed up, St. Francis.
02:02who's involved in this also.
02:14There's a casing over here.
02:18There's another one.
02:24And there's multiple back there.
02:27Might be more than one.
02:29Appreciate it.
02:31We're gonna start hauling witnesses
02:32to the detective division to give a statement.
02:41That's right.
02:42Yes, ma'am.
02:45Okay.
02:46I will let the crime scene know.
02:48I appreciate it.
02:50Be down.
03:05For homicide detectives,
03:07their chance of solving a murder
03:08is cut in half
03:10if they don't get a lead
03:11within the first 48 hours.
03:19Oh, my God.
03:32A little after 1 o'clock this morning,
03:33I got a call from about a murder
03:35that happened out at an event center.
03:37There's three people total shot,
03:39and one is deceased,
03:41two others have been transported
03:42to the hospital.
03:44The victim's name's Antonio Rosales.
03:4943-year-old Antonio Rosales,
03:52known as Tonio,
03:53was born and raised in Mexico.
03:56When he was 19,
03:57he moved to the U.S.,
03:59where he married his wife, Marisol.
04:02They have four children together.
04:05Antonio's passion was riding horses
04:07in Mexican rodeos.
04:11He was shot one time
04:12in the upper left chest.
04:14Two other males that were shot,
04:16one was shot in the abdomen,
04:17the wrist,
04:18and the arm.
04:20The other was shot in the lower leg.
04:23They were both in stable condition.
04:27We got about 10 to 12 people
04:29here at the detective division
04:30to interview.
04:31So we're trying to sort all that out.
04:37I've got the wife.
04:44I'm Detective Farrell.
04:46I'm very sorry
04:47that you're having to be up here
04:48with us today.
04:49We'll try to get you through this
04:51as quickly as we can, all right?
04:54From what I understand,
04:55you've been told about Antonio.
04:57Is that correct?
04:58Do you know that he passed?
05:00Yeah.
05:00Okay.
05:03Can you kind of just walk me through
05:06what happened tonight?
05:09So we were at the party,
05:10and I was sitting here,
05:12and he was sitting next to me.
05:13Antonio?
05:14Yeah.
05:15And he had the baby in his arms
05:17because she was about to go to sleep.
05:19And then the fight broke out
05:20in front of us.
05:22And as soon as they started fighting,
05:23I ran towards the band
05:25because I don't know there's a door
05:26to go out.
05:28And then I looked behind me,
05:29and he wasn't behind me.
05:30And then when I came back,
05:32they had him on the floor.
05:34We had to shot to his chest.
05:37Where were you guys at?
05:40So there was a line of tables here.
05:43Uh-huh.
05:44We were about right here.
05:47And the fight was over here.
05:50Did you see what the fight was about?
05:51No, they just started arguing.
05:53And then one punched the other,
05:55and he fell,
05:56and that's where they shot.
05:59Did you see the person with the gun?
06:01No.
06:02You never saw anybody with a gun?
06:03It sounded like there was two guns.
06:06Okay, and you came back,
06:07and Antonio,
06:08he was on the ground?
06:09Yeah, he was on the floor,
06:10and his sister was, um,
06:12like, putting pressure on the chest.
06:14And she told me,
06:15I saw when he got shot,
06:17and he put the,
06:17he threw the baby under the table.
06:20According to Antonio's sister,
06:22he was trying to shield
06:23their four-year-old daughter.
06:26Did you ever see anybody with a gun,
06:27even afterwards?
06:29No.
06:31So whose party is it?
06:33My husband's cousin's wife.
06:35It was her birthday?
06:37Yeah.
06:38She gives him the woman's name
06:40and phone number.
06:44This is, uh,
06:46nothing I can do
06:47to bring him back.
06:50Is there anything else,
06:52uh,
06:53that you need from me?
06:55Any questions
06:56or anything like that?
06:59Okay.
07:01I'm very sorry.
07:04I'll be working nonstop
07:06until I can figure out
07:07who did this, okay?
07:09Okay.
07:10I'm very sorry for your loss.
07:12I'll get you out of here, okay?
07:22The victim, Antonio,
07:24he wasn't involved in any of it.
07:26He was just sitting at the table,
07:27uh, just
07:29watching over his daughter,
07:31you know,
07:31and takes a round.
07:33He tried to hide his daughter
07:34underneath the table,
07:35uh,
07:36and then he collapsed
07:37down to the ground.
07:40So,
07:40you know,
07:41these guys are being
07:42very reckless
07:43shooting firearms
07:44with this many people
07:45in a,
07:45in a room.
07:50All right.
07:52Farrell
07:52speaks with the wife
07:53and 14-year-old daughter
07:54of the surviving victim
07:56who was shot in the leg.
07:59where were you at
08:00exactly
08:01inside.
08:02I'm going to draw
08:03that for you.
08:10We was over here
08:11on this side.
08:13These two tables
08:14over here.
08:15Did you see
08:16what caused the fight?
08:18I know
08:19that my husband,
08:20uh,
08:22I think he was
08:22kind of mad
08:23because,
08:23uh,
08:24one of the guys,
08:25I think they're trying
08:26to give a liquor to her.
08:28And my husband
08:29looked him,
08:29like,
08:30mad.
08:31And then a few minutes
08:32later is when
08:33I saw the guy
08:33come and,
08:34like,
08:35saying something
08:35to him,
08:35and then they
08:36start,
08:36like,
08:36fighting.
08:37So that kind
08:38of started the fight?
08:39That's what I think.
08:42You hit my dad first.
08:44I remember
08:45he got a blue shirt on.
08:47And he was Mexican
08:48and he had black hair
08:49and he didn't have
08:49a hat on or anything.
08:52And then all of a sudden
08:52I see my brother
08:53and my dad
08:53and that guy
08:54on the floor.
08:55And they were all
08:55just hitting each other.
08:58And then I saw,
08:58like,
08:59if he was black
09:00and he, like,
09:00hit my dad right here.
09:01I just hit him
09:02with a gun like that.
09:04With a gun?
09:05Yeah,
09:05he had a gun.
09:07But I feel like
09:08he was mixed
09:09because his skin,
09:10it was not,
09:10like,
09:11dark, dark.
09:12And then his hair
09:13is curly.
09:14Maybe mixed race?
09:15Mexican and black.
09:18Okay.
09:20And I was, like,
09:21trying to shoot my husband
09:23and then do like this
09:24and then start, like,
09:25shooting, like,
09:25the tables behind it.
09:27Is he the only one
09:29that you saw with a gun?
09:30No.
09:31And it was another guy
09:32with the jean jacket,
09:35the white jacket.
09:36That guy,
09:37I saw him in the corner
09:38doing like this.
09:40Where was he at over here?
09:42Over here,
09:42almost in the corner
09:43where the bathroom was.
09:45Can you describe him
09:47to me?
09:48He was a spinnaker,
09:49for sure.
09:50He was having some
09:51dark glasses
09:52over here on the back.
09:54Like eyeglasses,
09:55sunglasses?
09:55Like, sunglasses.
09:57Blue jeans.
09:58Blue jeans.
10:00And I think it was,
10:00like, a jean jacket
10:01with white...
10:04And he was, like,
10:05around six foot.
10:07He was skinny, though.
10:09Uh, how old
10:10do you think he was?
10:11I was seven.
10:1319, 20, yeah.
10:17Did you ever
10:17see your husband
10:19with a gun?
10:20Mm-mm-mm.
10:21No.
10:22All right.
10:24I think that's all I have.
10:27Thank you for coming down.
10:29Oh, thank you.
10:36Ma'am, come with me
10:37right here.
10:40I'm, like,
10:41I don't see gunshots.
10:42I didn't see nobody shooting.
10:44It all happened so fast.
10:46I just hear a cock of a gun
10:47and then shots fired.
10:50No.
10:59The one you saw shooting,
11:01how would you describe him?
11:03I just know he was
11:04a light-skinned male.
11:06I see.
11:06And he was taller.
11:08He was probably, like,
11:09six foot, maybe.
11:12Skinny, heavy.
11:13Um, he was, like,
11:15medium-built.
11:15He wasn't skinny,
11:16but he wasn't fat either.
11:18Do you remember
11:19what color clothing
11:20he had on?
11:22I don't know.
11:22It's because of
11:23everything that happened.
11:24My memory just
11:24went blank at that second.
11:27So what was going on?
11:30It looked like a quinceanera
11:31or a rookie.
11:32It was a lady's birthday.
11:33It was this lady's birthday.
11:34They were friends
11:35with my parents.
11:36That's how we got
11:37invited to that party.
11:39Okay.
11:40It was her birthday.
11:42And then her, um,
11:44son had some friends there.
11:48They were the ones
11:49that were shooting.
11:52Now, I'm sure
11:52if you question her son,
11:54he's going to know
11:55who it is
11:55because they were there
11:56hanging out with him.
12:13And this is her son
12:15right there.
12:16His name is
12:22how many people
12:24were in his group?
12:25He was probably
12:26like five or six.
12:27Five or six?
12:28Yeah.
12:29I know there are
12:29more boccato,
12:31like cowboy type.
12:32He was not boccato.
12:33He was like
12:34a banger,
12:35but it's like
12:37baggy pants
12:38and all his little friends
12:39with tattoos
12:40and Jordans.
12:42Do you remember
12:43like where
12:44and his group
12:45were hanging out
12:46inside?
12:47They were right here.
12:49And you're not aware
12:51of anyone in their group
12:52getting shot?
12:53No.
12:54Because nobody else
12:55had those.
13:00Right here.
13:02If you want to come back
13:02here,
13:03you just like that.
13:04Yeah.
13:06No, I'm not going to
13:07help.
13:09I'm not going to
13:11get some good
13:12information about
13:13one of the shooters.
13:15Nobody knows
13:16who he is,
13:17unfortunately,
13:19right now,
13:19so we're still
13:20trying to get a name
13:21of who this guy is.
13:24The birthday girl's
13:25son
13:27is his
13:28group of friends.
13:30He knows them.
13:31Yeah.
13:36That's probably
13:37going to be
13:37the address.
13:46We're headed
13:47out to
13:47Sand Springs.
13:49This girl
13:49that threw
13:50the birthday party,
13:51her son
13:52is supposedly
13:53friends
13:53with the suspects
13:55that we're
13:56trying to ID.
14:00It's this one.
14:11Hello.
14:12Can we talk to you?
14:15Yep.
14:15Come in.
14:26They're coming downtown.
14:28They're going to follow us.
14:36All right.
14:37I'm Detective Farrell.
14:38I'm here to talk to you
14:40about what happened
14:41out there at the party.
14:43Farrell speaks
14:43with the son of the woman
14:44who hosted the party.
14:47When it all started,
14:48we was all chilling
14:49and I was in the back corner.
14:52I took a shot.
14:53I wasn't really trying to drink.
14:55I hate drinking.
14:56I hate feeling hungover.
14:58But I took some shots.
15:00I sat down,
15:01sitting there,
15:02and then wasn't feeling good.
15:04Close to the bathroom.
15:04I'm throwing up.
15:06I'm washing my face.
15:07Took a drink of water.
15:09Bryce, I'm glad the door.
15:10I hear screaming
15:10and I hear shots.
15:12When I walk out,
15:13that's when everyone's
15:15already shooting
15:16and then fighting
15:17and running and
15:18I see my cousins fighting.
15:21Who are they fighting?
15:23I don't know.
15:24I don't know them.
15:28Who else was there
15:30that wasn't locked up
15:31with somebody?
15:33Weecho and his brother, Max.
15:36Weecho?
15:37Yeah, Weecho.
15:37I don't know how to spell that one.
15:38They're second cousins.
15:40They're like distinct cousins.
15:42Those are the ones
15:43that I was really
15:44kind of hanging out with.
15:48So are you aware
15:49that people are saying
15:51it's your friends
15:51that were shooting?
15:54I mean, I could say
15:55it was one of them,
15:56but I don't know who it was.
16:02Whenever you walked outside,
16:03did you see someone
16:04with a gun?
16:07Uh...
16:08I see Max.
16:12What kind of gun was it?
16:13Uh, it was probably a block.
16:17But I don't know who's sharp.
16:18Because when I walked out,
16:19there was no more shooting.
16:22Max, he had a gun
16:24like this side,
16:25kind of like that.
16:26So I don't know
16:27if he shot.
16:29Does he have Facebook
16:31or anything like that?
16:33Yeah.
16:42Max Perez?
16:44Perez.
16:48Do you mind if I look
16:50at this real quick?
16:54Is this a picture of him?
16:57Yeah.
16:58That's him.
17:01That guy in the corner
17:02doing like this.
17:04It was like a jean jacket
17:05with white.
17:10Was Max wearing
17:11those sunglasses tonight, too?
17:13Yeah.
17:15He was having some
17:16dark glasses
17:17over here in the back.
17:18Sunglasses.
17:21He always has those glasses
17:22everywhere he goes.
17:38Is that what he looks like
17:39right now?
17:40Yeah.
17:46Where does Max live at?
17:49I think it's like B.A.
17:50or somewhere far out there.
17:53He says he lives
17:54in Broken Arrow,
17:55a suburb
17:5614 miles away.
17:58What kind of car
17:58does Max drive?
18:00Max drives
18:01a Volkswagen.
18:03I think gray or white.
18:07He says like
18:08in a relationship
18:09with
18:09She is Max's girl.
18:15Who else did you see
18:16with a gun?
18:19Just Max
18:20when I walked out.
18:22Who did Max leave with?
18:25Honestly, I don't know.
18:26And Weecho,
18:27do you have him
18:27on Facebook?
18:29Weecho,
18:30I don't think so.
18:32What was Weecho wearing?
18:34Weecho was wearing
18:34just a plain black shirt.
18:37Do you have a number
18:37for Weecho?
18:39No.
18:40I don't have
18:40a number of Max's.
18:42You carry a gun?
18:44Yeah.
18:45Did you shoot?
18:46No.
18:47No.
18:47I walked out.
18:48Did you pull a gun out?
18:48I was about to,
18:49but then that's
18:50when I seen Max
18:50and I was worried
18:51about Max
18:51trying to do
18:52some more stupid
18:53if he did shoot.
18:54So I grabbed him
18:55because he had a gun
18:56like that.
18:58What about Weecho?
19:00I know he has guns.
19:01I don't know
19:01if he had one on him.
19:04All right.
19:05Just hang tight for me.
19:14He puts a gun
19:15in Max's hand.
19:16Yeah.
19:17Most of the people
19:18are saying
19:19the guy that was shooting
19:20was standing
19:21in the area
19:21where the birthday girl's
19:23son said
19:23said that he saw Max.
19:25They described that jacket.
19:28He was wearing sunglasses.
19:30I mean, clothing-wise,
19:32facial, the sunglasses,
19:34everything about it
19:35is Max.
19:4028-year-old Maximiliano Perez-Pina
19:43was born in Los Angeles.
19:45He attended high school
19:47in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
19:49He has no prior convictions.
19:53Weecho, whoever that is.
19:55It's supposed to be Max's brother,
19:57but I don't know his name.
20:00The warrants squad
20:01will look out for Max
20:02as detectives prepare lineups
20:04for their witnesses.
20:06I don't want to wait too long.
20:08That gun's going to be gone
20:09before too long.
20:21The next day.
20:23That guy.
20:25Sweet.
20:27Mark showed about
20:29four or five different people
20:30the photo lineups,
20:31and every one of them
20:32picked Max Perez
20:35as being the shooter.
20:37So we have PC now.
20:39We're working on a warrant.
20:42He does have a white Volkswagen
20:43that's registered to him.
20:45It's a Volkswagen Jetta.
20:48Figure out the tag.
20:54About an hour after the murder,
20:56he has to get an axon hit
20:57on his car at 71st and Louis
20:59going west.
21:01Max's car was spotted
21:03six miles away
21:04from the crime scene.
21:07So we learned that Max
21:08Max is driving
21:09a little white sedan.
21:10We tracked that car out
21:11to the area of 71st and Yale.
21:22Morris just found the car.
21:24All right.
21:26Warrants had been out
21:27looking for it.
21:28They found it
21:28at an apartment complex.
21:35Warrants has gone
21:36and talked to management
21:37out there
21:37and learned that
21:38Max's girlfriend
21:39is actually renting
21:40an apartment right in front
21:41of where that car is found.
21:44Our warrants units,
21:45they're sitting up
21:46on that right now.
21:55I'll meet y'all out there.
22:03We're headed down
22:04south part of Tulsa.
22:05We know that Max
22:06has a girlfriend
22:07who lives down here
22:08at this apartment.
22:10His car is there.
22:19That's his car
22:20right there.
22:261632,
22:26we're going to
22:26start announcements.
22:29This is the
22:30most-reached apartment.
22:32We need to come outside
22:33with nothing in your room
22:34so we need to
22:35be able to be officers.
22:55All right.
22:59All right.
23:00I'm going to
23:00have a warrant number.
23:10Max,
23:11can you come outside
23:12and do it now?
23:17All right.
23:1840, moving up.
23:29Whatever, you're ready.
23:35Clear.
23:38Nobody's in there.
23:39Max isn't in there.
23:41Department's empty.
23:43His girlfriend,
23:44I don't know
23:45if she has a car or not,
23:46but if she does,
23:46they're probably gone.
23:51This thing's gassed
23:52pretty bad,
23:53so it's going to have
23:53to air out
23:54quite a while
23:54before we actually
23:55go in there.
23:57We'll get crime scene
23:58out here.
24:12They found a couple
24:14of mags for a rifle,
24:15a pistol,
24:17holster,
24:18and that's really
24:19about it.
24:20No jean jacket.
24:22We contacted
24:23Max's work.
24:24He's not shown up.
24:25Max's girlfriend.
24:26She hasn't shown up
24:27for work.
24:30Max has turned
24:31his phone off.
24:32I assume that
24:33they're probably
24:33together at this point,
24:35so I'm going to
24:36look into her phone,
24:38and maybe that can
24:38direct us
24:39to where they're at.
24:42We'll leave it up
24:43to Warren's.
24:44Thank you, guys.
24:45Yes, sir.
25:07Six days into the investigation,
25:09as the warrant squad
25:10continues to search
25:11for Max
25:12and his girlfriend.
25:13I got one witness
25:14to all the second shooter.
25:16Farrell gets another lead.
25:18I got information
25:19through Crime Stoppers' tip
25:21that the other shooter
25:22involved in this
25:23was Max's brother,
25:24Weecho.
25:27His name's Luis Perez,
25:29so I'm putting
25:30a photo line up together.
25:32We'll see.
25:36We're headed
25:36and show a photo line up
25:37to the wife of Manuel.
25:39Manuel was shot in the leg.
25:41She was there
25:41when all this happened,
25:43and she was really close
25:44to this second shooter,
25:46so we'll go see
25:46if she can pick out Luis.
25:52Hi.
25:52How are you?
25:53I'm going to have him
25:54show it to you, okay?
26:03Well, thank you
26:04for your time.
26:09She picked him.
26:10Yeah.
26:12The witness identifies
26:13Luis Perez
26:14as the second shooter.
26:18She went like,
26:19boom, boom, boom.
26:20That's him right there.
26:21That's the one
26:22who had a darker complected.
26:24She said,
26:25that was the one
26:25that had a gun
26:26that was trying
26:27to get at my husband.
26:29If you're going to
26:30get a warrant out
26:30for brothers,
26:31that's going to be awesome.
26:39Luis Angel Perez,
26:41he's the one
26:42they were calling
26:43Weecho.
26:45He doesn't have
26:46any serious past charges.
26:4927-year-old Luis Angel Perez
26:52was born and raised
26:53in Tulsa.
26:55He works for a metal
26:56fabricating company.
27:00So warrants
27:01got information
27:02about Luis's phone.
27:04The business
27:05way out east
27:06of Tulsa
27:06recovered it.
27:08It was tossed
27:10under the bridge.
27:11So I'm thinking
27:13he tried to toss it
27:13in the river
27:14and it didn't quite make it.
27:16We learned that Luis
27:17works in West Tulsa.
27:18Warrants went out there
27:20and contacted his bosses.
27:21They notified them
27:23that he didn't show up.
27:25They were also informed
27:26that Luis's girlfriend
27:28had shown up out there
27:29trying to get his paycheck
27:30and notified them
27:32that Luis would be gone
27:33indefinitely.
27:34That tells me
27:35that Luis is probably
27:37on the run
27:37and has a big part
27:39of this.
27:40Luis's girlfriend,
27:41we ended up
27:42getting her contact
27:43information.
27:45We've been able
27:46to reach out to her
27:47to see if she'll come in
27:48and talk to us.
27:49I'm typing up
27:50a search warrant
27:51for her phone.
28:00The next day...
28:02My name's Nathan Schilling.
28:04I'm a detective up here.
28:05Okay.
28:06...Luis's girlfriend
28:07agrees to come to homicide.
28:11The birthday party?
28:12Yeah.
28:13Were you there?
28:15Mm-hmm.
28:16Okay, did you know
28:17the birthday girl?
28:19No.
28:20What do you remember
28:22happening
28:23leading up to
28:24and during the shooting?
28:26Well, I mean,
28:26I'm not sure
28:27because I didn't see
28:28it happen.
28:29I heard shots
28:30and right now
28:30I'm just looking
28:31at everybody else's day.
28:33So what happened
28:34after you right now?
28:36I just don't know.
28:38So when you left,
28:39did Luis leave with you?
28:40Mm-hmm.
28:42Live together?
28:43Mm-hmm.
28:45Where's Luis right now?
28:47I'm not sure.
28:48When did he leave?
28:51Uh, excuse me.
28:53I haven't heard
28:54from him since.
28:55How long have you guys
28:56been together?
28:59Um, five years.
29:01You've been together
29:02five years
29:02and he just leaves
29:03without telling you
29:04where he's going
29:05or why he's leaving?
29:06Mm-hmm.
29:08He said,
29:08I'm going to the store.
29:10I'm going to my mom's.
29:11I'm going...
29:11He said, I'll be back.
29:12He said, I'll be back.
29:14And he left.
29:15And that was Sunday?
29:16Mm-hmm.
29:17How did he leave?
29:20I'm not sure.
29:22You need to try
29:22to call him?
29:24Yeah.
29:26Obviously,
29:26he just says,
29:27it's really sad.
29:29Okay.
29:30If you lie
29:31to help Luis,
29:34at a minimum,
29:36that's considered
29:36obstruction,
29:37which is misdemeanor.
29:39And at a maximum,
29:40it's considered
29:41an accessory
29:42after the fact.
29:44So you don't know
29:44where he's at
29:45or where he would go?
29:48No.
29:50So you know
29:51someone died,
29:52correct?
29:53Yeah.
29:54I was going to say
29:54so about.
29:56Here's the deal.
29:57We have a warrant
29:58to search your phone.
30:06So her boyfriend
30:07is one of our suspects,
30:08and she wants
30:09to sit there
30:09and act like
30:10she doesn't know
30:11anything about
30:12what's going on,
30:13but yet he disappears
30:15the day of the murder
30:16and hasn't called
30:18or texted,
30:20hadn't told her
30:21where he was going,
30:22nothing.
30:24Depending on
30:25if she's given him
30:26any aid
30:27to skip town
30:28and to avoid
30:29detection and arrest,
30:30she could be
30:31looking at some trouble.
30:38So a little over
30:40a week
30:40after the murder,
30:43she receives
30:44$1,000
30:45from Luis
30:47in a transfer.
30:50And then later
30:51that same day,
30:52she transfers
30:55$16,630 pesos
30:57to a lady,
30:58and I'm assuming
30:59in Mexico.
31:00You're not going
31:01to transfer pesos
31:01in America,
31:02so there's a very
31:04good chance
31:05our boy's down
31:06in Mexico.
31:21It would appear
31:22that Luis's girlfriend
31:23might be leaving
31:24some stuff out.
31:30Let's see
31:30what she's got to say.
31:38Is what you've told me
31:40the truth?
31:42Hmm.
31:43Told you what I know,
31:44at least.
31:45When's the last time
31:46you had any contact?
31:48Have you ever heard
31:48anything from Luis?
31:53Okay.
31:54So did Luis send you
31:55$1,000 on Monday?
31:59His account did.
32:00I'm not sure how
32:00I got it,
32:02but I have it on my phone.
32:04And then what did you
32:05do with that $1,000?
32:11You're locally?
32:13Not in Mexico?
32:17Who is
32:19grandma?
32:21Your grandma?
32:22Mm-hmm.
32:23And what did you
32:24send her Monday?
32:26Send her money.
32:29What do you think
32:30that looks like?
32:32I don't know.
32:33What are you guys
32:34thinking?
32:34It looks like
32:35you're sending money
32:36to him in Mexico.
32:41I want to talk to my lawyer
32:42at this point
32:43because I feel like
32:43anything I say
32:44you guys are going
32:45to twist around
32:47because you guys
32:47That's probably
32:48a good idea
32:48because remember
32:49what I told you?
32:51You could be an accessory
32:52or you could be obstruction.
32:54Mm-hmm.
32:55Based on what I see
32:56in your phone,
32:58I'm going to go
32:59with accessory.
33:08Max's girlfriend
33:09decided to
33:10jump in the water
33:11with him
33:12and
33:12Luis's girlfriend
33:13made the same decision.
33:14So, we'll see
33:17what the DA's office
33:18thinks about it.
33:25Detectives in the
33:25warrant squad
33:26continue the hunt
33:27for Max,
33:28his girlfriend,
33:29and Luis.
33:34A month into the search.
33:37We got Max's girlfriend,
33:39his phone records back.
33:40This shows that
33:41she's leaving Tulsa
33:42on the 28th
33:43that night.
33:44She goes through
33:45Oklahoma City,
33:46travels down to Dallas.
33:48Going deeper
33:49in her phone records,
33:50we found out that
33:51she had made a stop
33:53at a quick trip
33:53down in Dallas.
33:55They're both together.
34:02Her last hit
34:03on her cell phone
34:05was north of
34:05Laredo, Texas,
34:06at a bus stop
34:07right at the border
34:08to Mexico.
34:10It's a bus station
34:12used to travel
34:13from the U.S.
34:14down to Mexico.
34:18We got their
34:19passenger logs
34:21at 915 on the 29th.
34:23Max's girlfriend,
34:25Max Perez,
34:26and Luis Perez
34:27all boarded a bus.
34:30Their destination
34:31was in Zacatecas, Mexico,
34:33which is where
34:34she's from.
34:37We know they're down there
34:38in Mexico.
34:39They're together.
34:40Yeah.
34:41We've been in contact
34:42with the feds
34:43and they've been
34:44in contact with
34:45authorities down in Mexico
34:48and they're working
34:48that end of it.
34:51It's going to be
34:51a long process.
34:53They could be caught
34:54next week.
34:54They could be caught
34:55four years from now.
34:59We were also able
35:00to get flood camera footage
35:01from the area.
35:03The car that they're in
35:04at the quick trip,
35:06Nissan Versa.
35:07It's going to be
35:08Luis's girlfriend's car.
35:10How did he leave?
35:12I'm not sure.
35:14The DA,
35:16they've decided
35:16to file charges
35:17for accessory
35:18for both Luis's girlfriend
35:20and Max's girlfriend.
35:23Luis's girlfriend
35:24is getting arraigned
35:25for accessory.
35:26We're going to make
35:27contact with her
35:28to see if she'll
35:29come talk to us.
35:36All right.
35:38Luis's girlfriend
35:38agrees to return
35:39to homicide
35:40with her attorney.
35:45That's a picture
35:46of your car in Dallas.
35:49That's Dallas, Texas.
35:51Okay.
35:52Your car
35:52is down in Dallas
35:55where they get on a bus
35:56and they go to Mexico.
36:01Did you drive him
36:03to Dallas?
36:05No.
36:09Now's the time
36:09to be honest.
36:23I know you have
36:24a lot more information
36:25than what you're
36:26telling me right now.
36:30I get it looks guilty,
36:31like, obviously,
36:32for leaving,
36:33but I don't want
36:33to say something
36:34I don't even know.
36:35We're not asking you
36:36to say anything
36:36you don't know,
36:37but I think
36:38it's reasonable
36:39to assume
36:41he's nervous
36:42he wants to leave
36:42because he's involved
36:44in something.
36:45Yeah.
36:46Okay, well,
36:47do you assume
36:48that Max and Luis
36:49were the ones
36:49that were involved
36:50in this murder?
36:54Not Luis, no.
36:55I don't believe that.
36:57What if I told you
36:58that it's a definite
37:01that there were two people
37:02that were shooting
37:04and I have multiple witnesses
37:05that picked both of them
37:07out of photo alarms?
37:09A lot of people
37:10were firing shots,
37:11but my back was too,
37:12so I never, like,
37:13saw what happened.
37:14So you couldn't say
37:15it wasn't Luis?
37:17No, I can't
37:18because I never
37:19saw what happened.
37:22Who did you send
37:22the money to in Mexico?
37:25I don't remember the name.
37:27But originally,
37:27you said it was
37:28your grandma or something?
37:31But that's not
37:31your grandma?
37:32No.
37:37What did Luis tell you
37:38about what happened?
37:40He never went into detail
37:43about what happened.
37:44And I kind of was just like,
37:46well, you got yourself
37:48in this mess.
37:50Because I didn't do anything,
37:51so I was just pissed
37:52that it was even a thing,
37:53that it even happened.
37:57All right.
37:58I think we're done.
38:03Luis's girlfriend
38:04and Max's girlfriend
38:05assisted them
38:06in leaving the country.
38:08They're both being charged
38:09as an accessory
38:11to the murder.
38:12You just never know
38:14what some people think
38:15and how they treat
38:16certain situations,
38:17you know.
38:18They should have just
38:19called the police
38:20to let us know
38:21where they were.
38:22They obviously had
38:23a choice to make
38:24and they just chose
38:24the wrong one.
38:32two months later.
38:35Max and Luis
38:36were both picked up
38:36in Zacatecas, Mexico.
38:39The FBI
38:40had their contacts
38:41down there.
38:42They ended up
38:43getting them arrested.
38:44They'd been brought back
38:45and they're now
38:46in Tulsa.
38:48On the way over here
38:49from the jail,
38:49Luis,
38:50he lawyered up.
38:51Call your phone.
38:54Anyone?
38:55I've got a search warrant
38:56for his DNA
38:56and fingerprints
38:57so we're going to
38:58do that
38:58and then send him
38:59back over there.
39:05What's up, Max?
39:06I'm Detective Farrell.
39:08These slurs are silly.
39:10Slurs.
39:13You know why you're here?
39:15Yes, I do.
39:16If you're willing
39:16to talk to me,
39:17okay,
39:18about what happened,
39:19I'll just have you
39:19sign right there.
39:21I don't.
39:22Okay.
39:22Do you want an attorney?
39:24Yes, sir.
39:25This is a search warrant.
39:27That's for your DNA.
39:31Unfortunately,
39:31he doesn't want
39:32to tell us
39:33this side of the story.
39:35You know,
39:35there's always
39:36unanswered questions
39:37and we'd like to,
39:38you know,
39:38see the other side
39:39of the story,
39:40but unfortunately,
39:42he chose not
39:42to provide that.
39:48We didn't get a statement
39:49from Max and Luis.
39:51I think they already
39:52had it in their mind
39:53that they weren't
39:53going to talk to us.
39:56It originally started
39:57because someone
39:58had tried to give
39:59an underage girl
40:00some alcohol
40:01at the party,
40:02which stirred up
40:04an argument.
40:05At some point,
40:06Max bumped into
40:07one of the people
40:08that were over by Antonio,
40:09which started up
40:10the fight,
40:11which resulted in Max
40:12and Luis,
40:13both pulling out guns
40:14and shooting.
40:16I mean,
40:17it's unfortunate.
40:18With a big group party
40:20with young kids there,
40:21there was no reason
40:21to have guns there.
40:24Antonio had nothing
40:25to do with any of it.
40:27He wasn't a part
40:28of the fight
40:28or anything.
40:29He happened to be
40:30at the wrong place
40:30at the wrong time.
40:32It's very tragic.
41:03It's very tragic.
41:26Mom, look at me!
41:28The baby?
41:30Sometimes she's like,
41:31let's go see Papa.
41:33She knows that he's,
41:34you know,
41:35at the cemetery
41:35and she knows
41:36that he's sleeping
41:37because that's what
41:38I told her
41:38when she saw him
41:39in the casket.
41:42When they were shooting,
41:44he hugged her like this
41:45and then he threw her
41:46under the table
41:48so she wouldn't get shot.
41:50So behind the baby's dress
41:52is his blood.
41:54That's something of him
41:56that's there.
41:59Smile, smile, smile, smile.
42:03He worked very hard
42:04to accomplish
42:05a lot of things.
42:10He loved rodeos.
42:12Every Sunday,
42:13he would go to the rodeo
42:15and perform.
42:18He grew up
42:19without a father
42:20so he wanted
42:21to make sure
42:21that his kids,
42:22you know,
42:23they had everything,
42:24you know,
42:24and they did.
42:26I miss everything
42:27about him,
42:28like you lost
42:28your other half,
42:32you know,
42:33and we have been
42:34together for this long
42:35so it's like
42:36how do you live,
42:38you know?
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