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I am ashamed to say that I was not aware of what had happened to Santos Rodriguez until I began to write about Dallas history a few years ago. If anything positive resulted from this tragic event, perhaps it was a newly energized Hispanic community. All sorts of people - from ordinary citizens to militant Brown Berets - organized and protested, persistently demanding civil rights, social justice, and police reform. The killing of Santos Rodriguez sparked outrage from all corners of the city, but particularly in the Mexican American community. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison but ended up serving only two and a half years in Huntsville. More in-depth articles about this horrible case can be found elsewhere, but, briefly, Cain (who had previously been involved in the fatal shooting of a teenaged African American young man named Michael Morehead) was charged with committing “murder with malice” and was found guilty.
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He and Arnold got out of the car, leaving 13-year-old David, still handcuffed, in the backseat of the police car - for anywhere from 10 minutes to half an hour - alone with his brother’s bloody body. (It was determined through fingerprint evidence that Santos and David did not break into the gas station that night.) Stunned, Cain said that it had been an accident. The boys continued to insist they were innocent. He clicked the gun, as if playing Russian Roulette, telling Santos that the next time he might not be so lucky. Cain insisted the two boys were guilty and, in an attempt to coerce a confession, held his. Santos was in the front passenger seat, and Cain sat behind him in the backseat, next to David. The boys were driven back to the scene of the burglary - a Fina station at Cedar Springs and Bookhout. The boys said they had nothing to do with the burglary but were taken from their home as their foster-grandfather (an elderly man who spoke no English) watched, helpless, as they were handcuffed and placed in a squad car. Arnold who were investigating a late-night burglary at a nearby gas station where money had been stolen from a cigarette machine - the boys matched a witness’ vague description. Santos and David had been awakened and rousted out of bed by Officers Darrell L. It shocked the city of Dallas in 1973, and it is still shocking today. Today is the 45th anniversary of the tragic shooting of Santos Rodriguez, the 12-year-old boy who was shot in the head by a policeman as he and his 13-year-old brother David sat handcuffed in a police car. David and Santos Rodriguez (via Austin American-Statesman)