Posted September 19, 2017 3:00 pm by Comments

By Jennifer Cruz

Pete Ortiz’s attorney said the elderly man was simply weary of being on the run and living under an assumed name. (Photo: KSAT)
A man who has been on the run for more than 50 years, surrendered to authorities in Texas on Wednesday.
Pete Ortiz Jr., 75, was indicted in 1963 for the murder of Joe Ovalle on Dec. 22, 1962. But Ortiz fled before he was arrested and has been on the run ever since. When asked where he has been for the last half century, Ortiz said he works all of the time, that he followed migrants to Wisconsin where he works in the fields picking cotton, according to reports from local media.
Authorities believe Ortiz and another man, Frank Luna Juarez, are responsible for the shooting death of Joe Ovalle, a self-employed painter who was gunned down in his driveway two days before Christmas 1962. According to the San Antonio Express-News, Ovalle was shot three times in the abdomen and chest with a .38-caliber handgun moments after his son walked inside.
Juarez told investigators he and Ortiz were paid $1,000 to kill Ovalle, who was allegedly an informant for federal narcotics agents. However, John Kuntz, Ortiz’s attorney, said his client

Source: Guns.com

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