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THE BATTALION
‘The Thrill Killer’ set to die
By Michael Graczyk
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HUNTSVILLE, Texas '— He became known
in Dallas as “The Thrill Killer” for random
attacks believed to have left at least a dozen peo
ple dead, including five on a single bloody night in
the summer of 1995.
Many victims over the five-month period were
robbed or carjacked. Some were shot with a hand
gun, others with a shotgun. Some were mowed
down by a stolen car or truck.
On Tuesday, five days shy of
his 35th birthday, Juan Rodriguez
Chavez, labeled an “equal oppor
tunity assassin” by authorities, was
set to die for one of those slayings
— the robbery and fatal shooting
of a 39-year-old man gunned down
while he was talking on a pay
phone in northwest Dallas.
“We called him the thrill
killer,” said Jason January, one of
the Dallas County district attor
neys who prosecuted Chavez. “It
definitely fit.
“He was truly a living breath
ing killing machine, and the world’s going to be
safer once he’s gone. He was one of the few peo
ple I dealt with in 15 years with the DA’s office
that clearly demonstrated he enjoyed killing.”
Chavez was arrested a month after Jose
Morales was shot at a pay phone near Dallas’ Love
Field on July 2, 1995. According to a witness, the
gunman approached Morales, asked if he was “on
the line” and shot the victim in the chest. He
grabbed Morales’ wallet and shot him again
before fleeing. The wallet contained $2.
By the time the sun came up that morning, seven
other people had been shot, four fatally, including a
female security guard at a construction site.
Considered a threat even in custody, he woreto
court an electronic stun belt that inadvertenilj
activated during the first day of testimony. Joltei
by the voltage, he stood up, saying: “It’s shockiif
me,” then slumped to the defense table. Hewn
uninjured but his attorneys asked for a mistrial,
contending his constitutional presumption ol
innocence was violated. The request was denied
then became an issue in unsuccessful appeals.
Chavez dropped out of school in the ninth grade
and at age 17 was convicted of murder for killing!
neighbor and wounding a man dur
ing a burglary.
While serving a 15-year prisot
term, he racked up more than I
disciplinary violations, including
punching a corrections officer and
attacking another inmate in a recre
ation area. But by March 1994, lie
had accrued enough “good timel
prison to be paroled. He had served
less than half of his sentence.
“He should have never been lei
out of jail,” January said. “He's!
poster child for parole reform.”
The killing spree began a year
later with a fatal shooting during!
robbery at a car wash. He was
arrested in August 1995 when he reported to tns
parole officer.
At his trial, he was described as jovial, grinning
at spectators, many of them relatives of slaying
victims. State District Judge Harold Entzaskedii
there was any reason he shouldn’t be sentenced.
“I still say I'm not guilty,” he said.
Earlier that day, he warned court bailiffs k
would antagonize relatives of his victims', manyof
them Hispanic, by smirking.
“You ever seen a courtroom full of mad
Mexicans?” he said. “You oughta see them whet
I walk in the courtroom smiling.
“Em not going to let them see me sweat.”
He should have
never been let out of
jail. He y s a poster
child for parole
— Jason January
Dallas County district
attorney
NEWS IN BRIEF
Students charged
with burning flags
HOUSTON (AP) - Victoria
McCord was proud to share one
of her most prized possessions
with the world by displaying it at
her Harris County business.
The nine-foot flag that draped
her Army veteran brother's casket
hung vertically outside Lumber
Tag Specialties until March 22,
when she received a call while
attending a birthday party that
there had been a fire. When she
arrived, the flag was only a char
mark on the metal siding.
"Had the fire gotten into the
rafters under the eaves, it could
have caught the insulation on
fire," McCord said Monday. I
McCord said drivers of three
cars passing her business spot
ted young men fleeing from the
fire. One stopped to help clean
up the mess, another called 911
and a third chased the suspect
briefly and took down to
license plate number.
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Heinrichs, 17, and a juvenilefel
low student at Cy-Fair Higl
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