Homicide Suspect Omar Estrada Booked At The Milwaukee County Jail And A Cash Bond Of $200K Was Set For The 2017 Angel J. Ortega Murder Case

Estrada was booked at the Milwaukee County jail last Thursday and is awaiting a preliminary court hearing to face a homicide charge.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

July 2, 2022

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Last Thursday, June 30, 2022,  Omar Estrada, 30, was booked at the Milwaukee County jail after being extridited to Wisconsin from Texas.

On Saturday during a video conferencing Estrada bail was set at $200,000 cash and a preliminary court hearing was scheduled for July 12, 2022 to face multiple felony counts including 1st-degree reckless homicide.

Estrada's accomplice, José R. Sánchez, 29, aka, "Droopy" is still on the run and police believe he is still in Mexico.

According to the criminal complaint in Milwaukee County, in late August 2017, Sánchez, then 24, and Estrada, then 25, got into an altercation inside the Kaña Mojito Nightclub at the 600 block of S. 5th St. in the Southside of Milwaukee. Club security were able to break it up and remove those involved including Sánchez and Estrada in the altercation over a female. The suspects returned to Kaña after retrieving several handguns (.380 Cal. and .45 Cal.) and began to shoot at patrons exiting Kaña striking a male and a woman including fatally wounding Angel J. Ortega, 20. Afterwards, Sánchez and Estrada fled the scene and had been on the run, since then. Police believed the suspects fled to Mexico and the U.S. Marshals Service added both suspects to their wanted list in Wisconsin.

Sánchez and Estrada were each charged with three felony counts that include 1st-degree reckless homicide and party to crime and use of a dangerous weapon, if convicted they're facing up to 60-years in prison each; 1st-degree reckless injury and party to crime and use of a dangerous weapon, if convicted, they're facing up to 40-years in prison each, and 1st-degree reckless endangering safety and party to crime and use of a dangerous weapon, if convicted they're facing up to 12-years and six months in prison each and up to $25,000 in fines, according to court records.