VAL VERDE COUNTY, Texas — Val Verde County Authorities caught up with the man they are calling a person of interest in the murder of a Del Rio mother.
Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez said 23-year-old Ernesto Alejandro Olguin was taken into custody as he was trying to leave town Sunday night off Highway 90 on the way to Bracketville.
Olguin was arrested on an unrelated charge, but officials are questioning him about the murder of 27-year-old Sandra De la Cruz. They say her body was found in a San Felipe Cemetery Sunday morning and that she had been shot multiple times.
There is no word yet on whether charges will be filed in the murder case.
Sheriff Martinez says there are still a lot of missing pieces and they are still investigating what happened. If you have any information, please call Val Verde detectives at 830-774-7513.
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