A Milwaukee man who was added to the FBI’s list of 10 most wanted fugitives last year was caught after almost 16 years on the run, the agency announced Friday.
In a news release, the FBI announced that Octaviano Juarez-Corro, 47, was captured Thursday in Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico, after law enforcement officials received a public tip.
Juarez-Corro is accused of shooting five people and killing two at a Memorial Day picnic in Milwaukee on May 29, 2006, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. According to authorities, Juarez-Corro confronted his wife at South Shore Park on Lake Michigan and demanded to see his 3-year-old daughter, according to the newspaper.
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After he was told he could not see the child, Juarez-Corro, who was in the final stages of a divorce, allegedly pulled out a handgun and demanded that five people at the party get down on their knees, the Journal Sentinel reported.
Juarez-Corro then shot them “execution-style,” the FBI said.
Two people were killed, and three people were injured. Juarez-Corro’s wife suffered two gunshot wounds to her chest but survived, the FBI said. Hundreds of other people were in the park at the time of the shooting, the Journal Sentinel reported.
Juarez-Corro was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, according to the newspaper.
He was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in September 2021, WISN-TV reported.
“Octaviano Juarez-Corro spent the last 16 years running from law enforcement, hiding in another country, and believing time and distance was on his side,” Special Agent in Charge Michael Hensle of the FBI’s Milwaukee field office said in a statement. “The FBI has a long reach and extraordinary law enforcement partnerships across the globe.”
“Very proud of the partnership with the FBI working together in regards to bringing this particular individual into custody. Very proud of the community effort,” Milwaukee police Chief Jeffrey Norman told WITI-TV on Friday.
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