TEXAS DOUBLE HOMICIDE: Man Charged With Murdering Ex-partner and Her Boyfriend, Amber Alert Issued
A Venezuelan national has been charged with several counts of capital murder after reportedly murdering the mother of his three children and her boyfriend on Monday in Texas.
According to Austin Police, officers responded to a double homicide on the morning of October 14 in the 1800 block of Burton Drive, where they found a male and female deceased in a vehicle with gunshot wounds.
Sherles Gregorio Machado-Hernandez, 31, has been charged with the murders of Francis Anseume-Corredor, 27, and Bryan Flores Alvarez, 19. Both were pronounced dead at the site. Francis Anseume-Corredor’s three children went missing when their mother died, prompting the issuance of an Amber Alert. They have “been located and are safe,” according to police, since the incident.
In a news release, Austin Police identified Sherles Gregorio Machado-Hernandez as Francis Anseume-Corredor’s “common-law husband”. Machado-Hernandez fathered two of Anseume Corredor’s children. Detectives said the two are still living together.
“We have a coward who killed the mother of his children and left three children motherless,” stated Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis in a press conference.
According to the announcement, Machado-Hernandez was captured on a security camera shooting Anseume-Corredor and Alvarez in their vehicle at about 3:30 a.m. outside the latter’s apartment building.
After APD discovered the two bodies, they issued an Amber Alert for Anseume-Corredor’s three children. According to authorities, the children were shortly found safe with Machado-Hernandez’s brother.
Machado-Hernandez was shortly discovered hiding in the back of his brother’s vehicle, a black Kia SUV, after attempting to flee authorities by changing automobiles. While attempting to locate their subject, authorities described Machado-Hernandez as “armed and dangerous.”
Machado-Hernandez is now being imprisoned at Travis County Jail on a $2 million bail. These are Austin’s 51st and 52nd homicides of 2024.
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‘Coward’ allegedly kills mother of his children and her boyfriend in Texas, Amber Alert issued
