October 22, 2018
By Rick Jarvis
Laredo – The driver of the white Dodge Ram pickup truck (click here) circled the San Bernardo neighborhood, seeking his next prey....
...That night was the beginning of the end of a 12-day killing spree last month that claimed four women and rattled this normally quiet border city. Enriquez was the last of four women who authorities said were murdered by Juan David Ortiz, a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol....
...More than a month after the slayings, authorities and friends and families of the victims are all still grappling with a central, unanswered question: Why? What triggered Ortiz, a Navy veteran, husband, father of two and Border Patrol supervisor, to allegedly go on the deadly rampage, meticulously killing woman after woman, police say, with a .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol police believed to be his Border Patrol-issued service weapon?
Ortiz is accused of killing Melissa Ramirez, 29; Claudine Ann Luera, 42; Griselda Alicia Hernandez, 35; and Enriquez. The women all knew each other from San Bernardo,...
... They left behind sons, daughters, devastated moms and dads and perplexed, angered friends....
