Life In Prison For Mexican Man Who Shot North Texas Lawyer Dead
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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A Mexican man must serve life in a U.S. prison for stalking and helping arrange the 2013 North Texas slaying of a lawyer who'd been the acting head of a Mexican drug cartel.
Cepeda-Cortes in May was convicted of interstate stalking, conspiracy to commit murder for hire and tampering with documents or proceedings. Officials say the tampering involved efforts to destroy evidence on his computer.
His cousin, Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Cepeda, was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder for hire and tampering and awaits sentencing.
Prosecutors say the 60-year-old cousins used video cameras and a GPS device to track Chapa before he was killed in a shopping center parking lot. The gunman who walked up to Chapa, who was sitting in his Range Rover with his wife, and shot and killed him is still at large.
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