Texas: René Casas is wanted for violent murder in McAllen

• Violent murder: René Casas, 47, is wanted in Texas for beating a man to death
• The authorities assure that Casas is violent, dangerous, volatile and armed
• Since 1997 Casas has been detained on charges of possession of marijuana and cocaine.

René Casas has a warrant for his arrest in Texas,

for being the alleged person responsible for the beating of another man. The police claim that the Hispanic is armed and dangerous.

Casas, 47, is wanted by the Homicide Division of the McAllen Police Department (MPD, for its acronym in English) in southeastern Texas and almost on the border with Mexico.

According to the arrest warrant against Casas, consulted by MundoHispánico In Texas, the Hispanic is accused of having beaten 54-year-old Ricky Dowal Etheridge to death at the time of death.

MPD detectives noted, verbatim, that Casas is allegedly responsible for a «criminal homicide» after Etheridge’s body was discovered.

So far the only thing that the authorities do not know about the incident is what motivated Casas to beat the other man to death.

The authorities alerted the population that Casas may be armed, he is considered dangerous, of a volatile nature that leads him to react violently and that is why they ask that no one approach him if they identify him.

However, they insist that if someone recognizes you anywhere in Texas, notify the emergency number of the local authorities to make the arrest immediately.

The story of the stranger violent homicide, because it is not usual for someone to kill another person only with blows, it was discovered by chance.

On Tuesday, August 1, a person, it is not detailed in the documents who, at 5:00 in the afternoon called the emergency number of the MPD to request that an agent come to Etheridge’s house because they had not known anything for days. he and his family and friends were concerned.

An MPD patrolman attended the report and went to the house marked 1000 North 15th Street, in the south of the McAllen metropolitan area, to check that the man was alright.

The officer knocked on the door of the two-story yellow brick house and was then struck by the fact that the door was ajar.

After no one answered, the MPD patrolman entered the house and found the resident lying in the living room and when he came to check the body, he found that the man had already lost his life.

After the discovery of the agent of the man’s body, who reported the discovery and requested reinforcements, the agents of the Homicide Division arrived at the scene to carry out the investigation in the house that was in disarray and with signs of a violent fight.

Medical examiners in Hidalgo County, where McAllen is located, determined the next day that the victim had died from severe blows to various parts of the body.

So far it has not been possible to determine with precision if the attack against Etheridge and that took the life of the alleged murderer used an object when he attacked his victim.

On Friday, August 4, 2020, after three days of investigations, detectives from the Homicide Division issued the arrest warrant for René Everrett Casas for being the alleged person responsible for the death of Ricky Dowal Etheridge.

MPD agents do not detail in their investigation, at least in public access documents, how they concluded that Casas is the alleged murderer of the other man.

Some documents in the case are reserved for confidentiality, as the investigation remains open.

René Everrett Casas, his full name, is someone well known to the authorities in Hidalgo County.

In Texas criminal records his name appears on various alcohol and drug related arrests. However, he has never before been charged with any crime against someone else’s life.

The first time the Sheriff’s Office of the Hidalgo County Casas was arrested in 1997 on a charge of possession of cocaine and marijuana.

He has since been arrested for possession of the same two drugs on at least five other occasions in McAllen, Texas.

Casas suffered arrests for driving under the influence (DWI), possession of drugs with intent to sell, making a false report to police, one charge of starring in an illegal auto race on a Texas highway , evading arrest and yet another charge in 2018 for possession of drugs with intent to sell.

Now the Homicide Division of the MPD asks the Hispanic community of Texas that if anyone knows the reliable whereabouts of René Everrett Casas, contact the non-profit organization McAllen Crime Stoppers at 956.687.8477.

All leads will be kept anonymous and the lead leading to the man’s arrest could receive a reward.

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