Texas police reopen 1983 cold case murder investigation involving illegal immigrant suspect

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The Round Rock Police Department in Texas is reopening the investigation into a shooting outside a bar 40 years ago

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Police are reopening an investigation into a shooting four decades ago that left one woman dead and two men wounded outside a bar, saying that a change in Mexico's international extradition policy could help them provide justice to the victims. Martin Gallegos, 60, allegedly shot and killed 56-year-old Helen Ochoa outside the Cactus Lounge in Round Rock, Texas, on the evening of Oct. 16, 1983. A report in the Round Rock Leader at the time said that the shooting was the"apparent result of an argument over a woman." who was 22 years old at the time, had been dancing with Ochoa before two men confronted him. As the three victims were leaving the bar, Gallegos allegedly opened fire on them, killing Ochoa and wounding the two men.

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