swtexaslive.com
Approximately 50 residents of Rocksprings, in Edwards County, Texas chartered a bus that carried them from their hometown to Del Rio this morning praying for a miracle for their favorite son, former Edwards County Deputy Guillermo Falcon Hernandez. They were praying, literally. “When we crossed the U.S. Highway 277 Bridge across Lake Amistad, everyone on the bus held hands and we recited the Lord’s Prayer,” recalled Tooter Smith, a reporter for the Rocksprings Record who rode on the bus with her neighbors. The prayers were answered, but not in the magnitude that the Rocksprings contingent desired. Gilmer Hernandez was sentenced to twelve months plus one day for the federal conviction of violating the civil rights of Maricela Rodriguez Garcia. She suffered an injury from a round from Hernandez’s gun when the driver of the Suburban in which she was hiding as she was being smuggled into this country attempted to flee Hernandez’s traffic stop. Hernandez shot at least four times at the tires of the Suburban as it sped away.
Posted by tyne at March 20, 2007