José Roberto Aquino Calderón is accused of killing a person over a crane

• José Roberto Aquino Calderón is charged with the shooting homicide of Danis Valladares in Texas
• Valladares sold a crane to Aquino Calderón in installments, but he did not pay for it and the man took it away
• Aquino Calderón took revenge on the other man with four shots to the chest and in broad daylight

José Roberto Aquino Calderón was apprehended by federal agents of the US Marshals accused of the homicide of another Hispanic. Aquino Calderón was a fugitive and has been accused of having shot Danis Valladares to death, over a mess in the sale of a crane that the alleged murderer bought from the victim, but that he did not pay as agreed.

Aquino Calderón, 44, was captured by the US Marshals, specialized in searching for violent runaways, on Monday, April 19, 2021, based on an arrest warrant issued by detectives of the Homicide Division of the Houston Police Department (HPD) in Texas.

José Roberto Aquino Calderón solved his debt with bullets

José Roberto Aquino Calderón already sleeps in the Harris County jail and will face his criminal process before Judge Nikita V. Harmon, of the 176th Criminal District Court in Harris County, charged with the felony charge of first degree murder. So far, the judge has not determined when the first hearing of the detainee will be.

The Texas State Penal Code It details that the murder charge, such as the one faced by José Roberto Aquino Calderón, carries a penalty of 20 to 99 years for anyone who pleads guilty after facing trial. Aquino Calderón declared that he is not a citizen of the United States, but did not want to reveal where he is from, or his immigration status.

The story of a debt and the black Toyota Tundra truck

The documents of the case, consulted by MundoHispánico in Texas, they detail that in December 2020 the wife of Danis Valladares, 36, heard her husband complain that a man to whom he had sold a crane with a payment plan did not cover the monthly payments as they had agreed, the woman told HPD.

In her testimony, Danis Valladares’s wife explained to HPD Homicide Division agents that she never knew the name of the buyer of the tow truck. Her husband only told her that the man was driving a black Toyota Tundra truck with tinted windows and that he had to look for him to remove the tow truck that was not paying him.

The murder of Danis Valladares

To protect the identity of Danis Valladares’ wife and avoid retaliation against her, the woman’s name will not be revealed in this story. According to the woman, in early April 2021 her husband managed to recover the crane he had sold and took it home. The buyer was the alleged murderer José Roberto Aquino Calderón.

On the afternoon of Sunday, April 18, 2020, the HPD emergency number received a call that reported that a Hispanic man had been shot several times in front of the house marked 14800 O’Hara Drive, southeast of the metropolitan area. from Houston, in the South Main Plaza neighborhood.

Danis Valladares was thrown in front of his crane

The patrolmen arrived at 6:29 in the afternoon of that Saturday, April 18, and found a Hispanic man lying on the street, wounded by several shots. Next to the deceased today, parked on the street with one of the doors open, was a Chevy tow truck with one of the doors open and which authorities later discovered was the center of the plot.

When HPD officers arrived on the scene, they could no longer do anything to help the victim, who according to the first report had three to four shots to the chest allegedly fired at close range. The victim was identified as Danis Valladares, based on his driver’s license, and homicide detectives were called.

The killer arrived in a black Toyota Tundra pickup

The area in which the events occurred is an area with dozens of factories, workshops and warehouses in which many Hispanics work. The officers who worked in the investigation of the case against José Roberto Aquino Calderón spoke with several witnesses, all Hispanic, who gave them details of the incident.

Witness testimony revealed to HPD Homicide Division detectives that shortly before 6:00 p.m., a Hispanic man in a black Toyota Tundra pickup with tinted windows had arrived at Danis Valladares on the street. 2006 Chevy Silverado tow truck and violently confronted him.

José Roberto Aquino Calderón shot in broad daylight

Danis Valladares got off the crane and faced the other man, now identified as José Roberto Aquino Calderón, and they exchanged words in a heated discussion. From the screaming they passed to the insults and then to the accusations. At one point, the man in the Toyota Tundra truck pulled a pistol out of his clothes.

The witnesses, whose names will not be revealed in this story to protect their identity, detailed that they saw how Danis Valladares received three to four shots fired at close range directly to the chest. After unloading his gun, the shooter got back into the black Toyota Tundra and fled the scene at full speed.

José Roberto Aquino Calderón owns a Toyota Tundra

At the scene, after the shooting, Danis Valladares was killed in front of the yellow Chevy Silverado tow truck, lying in a pool of his own blood. Some of the shots that José Roberto Aquino Calderón allegedly fired did not hit the victim and hit a car that was parked to the side.

Following the preliminary investigation, the case in the death of Danis Valladares was classified as an intentional murder in the first degree and HPD detectives concentrated on learning who the Hispanic man in the black Toyota Tundra truck with tinted windows was. That was the clue that led them to Aquino Calderón.

The clue that led to José Roberto Aquino Calderón

When agents from the HPD Homicide Division spoke with the widow of the deceased today, they asked the woman if her husband had problems with anyone. A female detective led the talk with the victim’s wife and the widow of Danis Valladares then told them the story of the sale of the tow truck and the man of the mysterious black Toyota Tundra.

Valladares’s wife was unaware that witnesses to her husband’s crime had already told authorities that the shooter had escaped in a black Toyota Tundra pickup with tinted windows. Two pieces of the puzzle to find José Roberto Aquino Calderón were then joined.

The mysterious ‘Roberto Calderón’

A friend of Danis Valladares, whose name will not be revealed in this story, confirmed to HPD the story of the failed sale and the annoyance of the victim because the buyer who introduced himself as ‘Roberto Calderón’ did not cover the payments. This ‘Roberto Calderón’ was driving a black Toyota Tundra with tinted windows.

Based on that, the agents of the HPD Homicide Division traced the calls from Danis Valladares’ cell phone and discovered the identity of this’ Roberto Calderón ‘, as José Roberto Aquino Calderón and in the Texas car registry he appeared as the owner of a black Toyota Tundra pickup.

José Roberto Aquino Calderón is arrested by the US Marshals

The agents showed photographs of José Roberto Aquino Calderón to the various witnesses to the crime of Danis Valladares and they all identified him as the person allegedly responsible for the shooting. However, when HPD Homicide Division agents came to arrest him at his home in Missouri City, Texas, he had already escaped.

Then the federal agents of the US Marshals, specialized in finding and arresting violent criminals, joined the investigation and managed to discover where José Roberto Aquino Calderón was hiding. The feds were able to stop him, without the man putting up any resistance and before he fired.

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