EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM ) — El Paso Police have arrested and charged a second man with a 2022 East El Paso murder allegedly committed by a group of sicarios, or hit men, working for a cartel involved in human smuggling.
Gael Hernandez Ruiz, 19, is charged with murder in the death of 35-year-old Alonso Llamas Chavez on Dec. 28, 2022 outside the 11/11 Bar at 1441 Zaragoza.
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According to the affidavit obtained by KTSM, the victim had been drinking with friends at the bar, and when they left as a group around 2 a.m., he was shot by someone with a rifle in the parking lot.
Hernandez Ruiz and three other men are suspected of driving a white PT Cruiser to the bar in the early morning of Dec. 28 to kill Llamas Chavez on the orders of a man from Juarez in charge of a criminal organization involved in a human smuggling operation. Hernandez Ruiz was allegedly driving the car with three other individuals inside when they shot Llamas Chavez. Documents do not directly identify the shooter.