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also stated that while they were planning the robbery, Raul Cortez fired his .25-caliber pistol into the ceiling of his house at 312 South
Kentucky Street in McKinney while his brother stood outside to listen and see if he could hear the shot being fired. Police officials recovered fragments of the bullet in the South Kentucky residence and matched those fragments to those removed from victims Mark Barbosa, 25, and Austin York. Williams admitted to shooting Austin York and explained that his main reasoning was that the Cortez brothers would have killed him if he hadn't shot Austin. Haithcox's 18-year-old son, Cody, reasoned with the police officials about why Williams might have shot Austin. "I heard Shorty (Eddie Williams’ street name) talk about Javier. He was his friend," (Dallas News) Cody said. "If anything, I think they made him do it. He's not that type of guy."
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Talisha Haithcox, 37, called the police and told them that her boyfriend, Eddie Williams, was involved with the murders of the four victims in McKinney, Texas. McKinney Police Detective Joe Arp eventually gathered DNA evidence that linked Raul Cortez to the crime scene on Truett Street in McKinney, Texas. Investigators collected a cigarette butt from the place where Cortez worked in
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Haithcox went to the police station on June 14, 2007. They cooperated with the police. Williams told police officials that before the shooting, he had been at Raul Cortez's house in McKinney planning to rob Cliff's Checking Cashing business, where Rosa Barbosa was the manager. Williams
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Williams and the Cortez brothers. The case had
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On March 12, 2004, Eddie
Williams, Javier Cortez, and Raul Cortez entered the home of Rosa Barbosa (46), a clerk at a local McKinney check-cashing business. Javier Cortez allegedly had been watching Barbosa and believed she took cash home from the business daily. When the men couldn't find any money
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Barbosa (25) entered the home with friends Matt Self (17) and Austin York (18). The three burglars forced Mark Barbosa, Self, and York into a bedroom and shot them before fleeing the scene. Shortly following the botched robbery, Robert Barbosa -
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Williams were all arrested and charged. Williams pled guilty to three counts of murder in 2010 and was sentenced to 20 years. Raul Cortez was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. Williams's relatively lighter sentence compared to that
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evidence against the suspect. Also, investigators retrieved DNA evidence from the latex glove pieces and duct tape the suspects left behind in the house on the day of the murders. Arp used the cigarette butt and the latex pieces to cross-reference and was found to have matched once tested.
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