Rodolfo

Rodolfo "Kreeper" Medrano has been sentenced to death.
Jurors decided Saturday there was sufficient evidence to condemn the 26-year-old former Tri-City Bomber to the maximum penalty.
A jury found Medrano guilty of capital murder Thursday for providing lower ranking Tri-City Bomber gang members SKS and AK-47 assault weapons used to slay six men on Jan. 5, 2003 in Edinburg. Medrano, who ranked as a sergeant in the gang and was in charge of keeping the gang’s money and weapons, is the third of 13 indicted in the murders to be convicted and sentenced to death.
The victims were half brothers Juan Delgado Jr., 32, and Juan Delgado III, 20; Jimmy Edward Almendariz, 22; brothers Jerry Eugene Hidalgo, 24, and Ray Hidalgo, 30; and Ruben Rolando Castillo, 32.
Though prosecutors acknowledge Medrano was not present when the shootings occurred, he was tried under Texas’s law of parties, which says a person is criminally responsible for a crime committed by another if the person aids or conspires with another to commit a felony.
Medrano was also indicted with capital murder for the 2002 murders of 4 women in Donna, where a jailed gang member ordered a hit on a woman who was to testify against him. However, gang members killed the wrong women.
2 other men are already on death row in connection with the Edinburg murders; Juan Raul Navarro Ramirez, 20, who police said participated in the raid - and Humberto "Gallo" Garza, 31, the gang's captain who planned it.
Another man, Robert "Bones" Gene Garza, 22, was indicted in the Edinburg murders and is also on death row for the Donna shootings.