Three Eagle Passans Murdered in Dallas

By: Jose G. Landa
Copyright 2013

Three Eagle Passans were murdered outside the San Francisco Night Club in the Oak Lawn neighborhood in Dallas, Texas this past weekend stemming from a fight between two women inside the club who took their fight outside the establishment.

According to Dallas news reports, Claudia Balderas, age 22, got into a fight with another woman inside the San Francisco Night Club and the two women took their fight outside the club where Alfredo Arredondo, Jr., age 30, brother of Claudia Balderas, and Francisco Martinez, age 27, attempted to break up the fight between Balderas and the other woman in the parking lot of the club when another man, Rigoberto Vasquez Hernandez, age 45, opened gunfire on Arredondo, Martinez, and Balderas, killing all three.

Arredondo, Martinez, and Balderas were all residents of Eagle Pass while the suspect Vasquez Hernandez is from Dallas. Vasquez Hernandez was arrested and charged with three homicides by the Dallas Police Department and jailed in the Dallas County Jail.

Family members and friends of Arredondo, Martinez, and Balderas were stunned and saddened by the tragedy and deaths of their loved ones and friends.

Funeral arrangements for Arredondo, Martinez, and Balderas are pending after the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office performs autopsies.

Photo credit: Melissa Repko, Dallas Morning News