Santos Rodriguez

Birth
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Death
24 Jul 1973 (aged 12)
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Burial
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 32.762661, Longitude: -96.7573166
Plot
Sec. 14 Lot: 4 (4 row 1) Grave: 1
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12-year-old Santos was shot and killed by Dallas Police Officer Darrell L. Cain, as he sat handcuffed in a squad car with his 13-year-old brother, David. Officer Cain was playing Russian Roulette with a .357 Magnum in an effort to get information from the boy when the gun discharged, firing a bullet into the boy's head. Cain later received a five year sentence for the murder.
Santos' mother, Bessie Garcia Rodriguez, received a 3-day pass to attend the funeral and was transported from a Texas prison where she had been incarcerated since 1971 on a 5-year sentence for the murder of Leonard_Brown.
12-year-old Santos was shot and killed by Dallas Police Officer Darrell L. Cain, as he sat handcuffed in a squad car with his 13-year-old brother, David. Officer Cain was playing Russian Roulette with a .357 Magnum in an effort to get information from the boy when the gun discharged, firing a bullet into the boy's head. Cain later received a five year sentence for the murder.
Santos' mother, Bessie Garcia Rodriguez, received a 3-day pass to attend the funeral and was transported from a Texas prison where she had been incarcerated since 1971 on a 5-year sentence for the murder of Leonard_Brown.

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From His Mother