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Padillia-Granadillo came into the country near El Paso, Texas,
on Oct. 1, 2022, and under Biden administration policy was
encountered by U.S. Border Patrol and allowed to stay in the
country on parole with a promise to appear for an immigration
appointment. He didn’t.
For failing to appear on Sept. 12, a U.S. attorney for the
Western District of Texas issued an arrest warrant. The search
involving U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, Border
Patrol, Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine
Operations and the U.S. Marshals Service ended with the suspect
taken into custody from a Raleigh residence on Saturday.
Padillia-Granadillo was in possession of a handgun and
ammunition. Ten others he was with, all in the country illegally
according to ICE, were also arrested.
The release from American lawmen did not detail in which Chicago
shooting Padillia-Granadillo is a suspect. While there’s no
definition of mass shooting, generally accepted including by Gun
Violence Archive is it happens if four or more people excluding
the perpetrator is shot in one location at one time.
The Chicago Tribune reported earlier this year 573 homicides in
2024, down from 617 a year earlier and 797 in 2021. City of
Chicago was cited as the source. A Google search of "Chicago
mass shooting" has many links.
Padillia-Granadillo was a long way from his homeland when
caught. El Paso is about 1,850 miles from Raleigh; a border town
of Venezuela in South America – such as San Cristobal – would be
a flight of more than 12 hours from El Paso. |
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