Rodriguez-Alvarez was arrested in Mexico by Mexican federal authorities who extradited him to Wisconsin in late May for the murder of a 15-year-old girl in 2008.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
November 14, 2021
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Thursday, November 8, 2021, Vidal Rodriguez-Alvarez, 32, homicide case was dismissed without prejudice by Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Glenn H. Yamahiro. According to court records, the primary witness that could identify Rodriguez-Alvarez in the murder case had been deported 10 years ago by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office (D.A.'s) who failed to protect the primary witness from being deported by ICE learned of his deportation several months ago and can't locate him, since they don't know the country that he was deported too. The D.A.'s office could charge Rodriguez-Alvarez again, if they locate the deported witness or find another witness to identify the suspect in Razo's murder.
Rodriguez-Alvarez faced a one felony count for 1st-degree reckless homicide for the 2008 murder of Liliana Razo, 15, in the Southside of Milwaukee. Rodriguez-Alvarez had fled to Mexico in 2008 shortly after allegedly throwing a screwdriver inside a vehicle where Razo was seating in the passenger's side resulting in her death.
Rodriguez-Alvarez had been a fugitive for more than 12 years. Rodriguez-Alvarez was facing up to 60 years in prison for the reckless homicide.
Rodriguez-Alvarez had violated probation for a felony theft of up to $10,000 and party to a crime conviction in 2007 when he fled to Mexico and is now being held by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (Milwaukee Secure Facility) for the probation violation. Rodriguez-Alvarez was sentenced in December of 2007 to four years in prison including 2 years of supervision at the time with 6 months months served, but the incarceration sentenced was stayed and was placed on probation.
Rodriguez-Alvarez has 2 years and 9 months to complete his sentence for the 2007 theft conviction.
According to the criminal complaint, Razo and two males, which the driver of the vehicle was a C-14 gang member confronted Rodriguez-Alvarez, a member of the Mexican Posse gang and another individual at South Division High School on September 5, 2008 about gang related conflicts and allegations of killing gang members. Words were exchanged between them and school security intervene and both groups left the school property.
A while later, Rodriguez-Alvarez who was accompanied by the state witness who was deported spotted Razo and the driver of the vehicle near the 1300 block of S. 13th Street, he walked up to the vehicle where Razo was at and threw a screwdriver inside the vehicle striking Razo in the left temple. Razo died a day later after the screwdriver was removed during surgery by a doctor.
The state witness who accompanied Rodriguez-Alvarez was the primary witness that could identify the suspect in Razo's murder.
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