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		</div><h6><strong><span style="color: #4a3535;">Hector &#8216;Cholo&#8217; Acosta-Ojeda, charged with three homicides, was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to death on Wednesday</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4a3535;">Acosta-Ojeda, 30, was accused of murdering his roommate Erick Zelaya, 26, and his girlfriend Iris Chirinos, 17, in Arlington, Texas </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4a3535;">Acosta-Ojeda fired two shots into 26-year-old Erick Zelaya&#8217;s head as he slept at home in September 2017</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4a3535;">After shooting both victims, Acosta-Ojeda buried the couple in shallow graves in a backyard and used a machete to behead Zelaya </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4a3535;">Zelaya was killed after he admitted his involvement in a drive-by shooting at Acosta-Ojeda&#8217;s home</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4a3535;">The victim and his girlfriend showed up after the shooting, and they seemed to be laughing, the following day the home was burned down</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4a3535;">Acosta-Ojeda confronted Zelaya about the shooting and Zelaya admitted to being involved. Hours later both Zelaya and Chirinos were killed</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4a3535;">The defendant later buried both bodies in a shallow grave in the backyard </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4a3535;">Before burial cut off Zelaya&#8217;s head with a machete,place it in a trash bag which he dumped near a trail by Arlington&#8217;s AT&#038;T stadium</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4a3535;">Acosta-Ojeda is also charged with the murder of 34-year-old Triston Ray Algiene in 2017</span></strong></h6>
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Hector &#8216;Cholo&#8217; Acosta-Ojeda, [photo], was sentenced to death for killing his roommate and his roommate&#8217;s girlfriend in Sept. 2017. Acosta-Ojeda, 30, allegedly shot his roommate multiple times in the skull before he beheaded him in a house and then executed his victim&#8217;s terrified girlfriend </strong></span></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A Texas man has been sentenced to death for the murders of his roommate, who was beheaded with a machete, and the roommate’s 17-year-old girlfriend.<br />
A jury in Fort Worth handed Hector Acosta-Ojeda, 30, the death penalty on Wednesday after he was found guilty of capital murder last week for pair of murders he committed in 2017.<br />
Acosta-Ojeda, a self-proclaimed hit man for a Mexican drug cartel, brutally killed Erick Zelaya and girlfriend, Iris Chirinos, in Arlington by fatally shooting them. He fired two shots into 26-year-old Erick Zelaya&#8217;s head as he slept at home in September 2017<br />
Prosecutors say Acosta-Ojeda mutilated their bodies, including beheading Zelaya, before placing their bodies in a shallow grave in his backyard and leaving Zelaya’s head on a nearby walking trail wrapped in a trash bag.<br />
Acosta-Ojeda reportedly acted in revenge and called the killings retaliation for a previous drive-by shooting that he believed Zelaya participated.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Eric Zelaya and his girlfriend Iris Chirinos were killed by Acosta-Ojeda,in Sept 2017 and their bodies were buried in Arlington, Texas backyard.<br />
Investigators believe they were involved in the murder of Triston Algiene in July before they were killed two months later </span><br />
At trial defense attorneys had suggested a life sentence, claiming that Acosta-Ojeda’s childhood was filled with violence and a brain injury may have affected him.<br />
It is unclear what the brain injury is or if there is an official diagnosis.<br />
In September 2017, Acosta-Ojeda fired two shots into 26-year-old Zelaya’s head while he slept at home before shooting Chirinos when she tried to flee the scene.<br />
Prosecutors told the jury that Acosta-Ojeda said he killed Zelaya in retaliation for a separate shooting that happened at his old house in Arlington.four months earlier when <span style="color: var(--color-text);">two gunmen opened fire on the house as Acosta-Ojeda and others slept inside.<br />
</span>Moments after the shooting, Zelaya and his girlfriend showed up at the home and seemed to be laughing. he following day Acosta-Ojeda&#8217;s home was burned down.<br />
Rousseau said Zelaya had confessed to Acosta-Ojeda that he had been involved in the shooting.</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-335551" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Dismembered-Remains-Of-Multiple-People-Found-In-Arlington-Texas.jpg" alt="Dismembered Remains Of Multiple People Found In Arlington, Texas.JPG" width="1375" height="681" /><strong>Authorities searched Zelaya&#8217;s home [photo], on the 200 block of Burton Drive where they found evidence of blood, a machete and the dismembered remains of two people in the backyard</strong></span></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Shortly after the shooting, Zelaya and Chirinos showed up at the home and appeared to be laughing. The next day Acosta-Ojeda’s home was burned down.<br />
Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Kevin Rousseau said that Acosta-Ojeda stayed with Zelaya for the majority of the summer of 2017, during which time he heard rumors of his new roommate’s involvement.<br />
The idea ‘ate away at him.’<br />
After executing the couple, Acosta-Ojeda went into the backyard and dug up a shallow grave for their bodies.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-335529" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ATT-Stadium-1.jpg" alt="AT&#038;T Stadium 1.jpg" width="807" height="499" /><strong>After decapitating Zelaya, Acosta-Ojeda prosecutors said, placed the severed head inside a garbage bag and left it on a man-made walking trail near the AT&#038;T Stadium in Arlington, Texas</strong></span></h6>
<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">He then used a machete to cut off Zelaya’s head and placed it in a garbage bag.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">According to prosecutors, Acosta ‘made a sign… then grabbed the bag and sign, got on a bicycle and rode to a location near where his home had been burned down.’<br />
He left Zelaya’s head near a man-made trail near the AT&#038;T Stadium in Arlington with a sign written in Spanish that read, ‘<em>La Raza Se Resreta y Faltan 4</em>,’ which loosely translates to, ‘The race, or group, must be respected and there&#8217;s only four left.&#8217;<br />
A criminal <a class="class" href="https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/11/05/hector-acosta-ojeda-guilty-capital-murder-shooting-beheading-arlington-roommate/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">investigation</a> was launched after the severed head was discovered by a terrified local resident and a search warrant was set at Zelaya’s home in the 200 block of Burton Drive.<br />
Officers executing the search warrant against the home discovered evidence of blood, a machete and the remains of the two victims buried in a shallow grave in the backyard at the home.<br />
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In addition to the Arlington murders, Acosta-Ojeda is charged with the robbery and killing of Triston Ray Algiene in July 2017 in Fort Worth.<br />
Algiene&#8217;s body was found in October 2017 cut in half, buried beneath a bedroom and covered in concrete at an abandoned home in the 6400 block of Woodway Drive.</p>
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<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-335540" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Hector-Acosta-Ojeda-left-and-Felipe-Ortiz-right-1.jpg" alt="Hector Acosta-Ojeda (left) and Felipe Ortiz (right) 1.JPG" width="668" height="538" /><strong>Hector Acosta-Ojeda [left] and Felipe Ortiz [right] were both charged in connection with the murder of Triston Algiene in July 2017. His body was found buried underneath the concrete in a home in Fort Worth, Texas, months after he was murdered </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-335560" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Fort-Worth-Police-at-the-scene-where-the-body-Triston-Ray-Algiene-was-found-2.jpg" alt="Fort Worth Police at the scene where the body Triston Ray Algiene was found 2.JPG" width="844" height="346" />The Fort Worth home where Algiene&#8217;s body was discovered. Police believe he went to the home to buy drugs but was then robbed and murdered </strong></span></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Acosta-Ojeda and another man, Felipe Eduardo Ortiz, were charged with the crime.<br />
<a class="class" href="https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article236768938.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Star-Telegram</a> reports that Algiene allegedly visited Acosta-Ojeda and Ortiz at a home for drug deal gone bad on July 3, 2017.<br />
The meeting is believed by authorities to be a set up that led to Algiene being bound and beaten while the suspects demanded his debit card PIN.<br />
Two other people, thought to be Zelaya and Chirinos, attempted to use the card but discovered the PIN didn’t work.<br />
Police say Acosta-Ojeda then shot Algiene in the head.</p>
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The house, vacant and up for sale when Fort Worth police went to investigate a tip, had been remodeled with new flooring and carpeting.<br />
Fort Worth police and officials used jackhammers and shovels to recover Algiene’s body, which was discovered in a bedroom under a repair patch in the foundation.<br />
Heavily decomposed, the body still had rope and duct tape tied around the head area when found, sources say.<br />
Algiene’s identity was only recently confirmed through DNA tests. Ortiz has not yet been convicted of those charges.</p>
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Texas man, Hector Acosta-Ojeda, 30, sentenced to death after he’s found guilty of beheading his roommate, Eric Zelaya, shooting dead victim’s 17-year-old girlfriend and burying the pair in a shallow grave in the backyard
