Ty Vaughn, Baytown, Texas man shoots dead his fiancee, Luis Banos Norberto after Googling, ‘can I kill an illegal human,’ after believing shooting dead an illegally documented immigrant would abstain him of any wrong doing and punishment.
A Texas man has been arrested for the murder of his fiancee who he is alleged to have killed after having done a Google search, including, ‘can I kill an illegal human.’
Ty Vaughn, 31, of Baytown, reportedly staged the crime scene to look like a suicide. He called 911 at about 5:30 a.m. on January 14 and said he’d come home to find his fiancee, 27-year-old man, Luis Banos Norberto dead from a gunshot to the face, KTRK reported.
‘My spouse is dead. Help. My life is over,’ Vaughn told dispatchers.
Emboldening crime against illegal immigrants
But according to court documents, investigators uncovered a different story, based on interviews with neighbors and surveillance video that showed Vaughn arriving at the couple’s apartment just after 4 a.m. Neighbors told police they heard a gunshot shortly after that, and at 4:27 a.m., Vaughn texted his already-dead fiance.
‘Babe?’ he wrote. ‘Babe why are you not texting back?’
Then he waited more than an hour before calling 911.
Police arrived on the scene and found Norberto lying on a bed with a rifle propped against one of his arms. A torn photo of Norberto and Vaughn was lying nearby.
Vaughn remained free for nearly two months after Norberto’s death, even giving interviews to the media before he was arrested according to FOX26.
Court documents state Vaughn repeatedly and unprompted mentioning Norberto’s alleged immigration status during interviews, and when they searched his phone, they found a Google search: ‘Can I kill an illegal human?’
The documents did not clarify Norberto’s immigration status. It is thought that Vaughn shot dead his same sex partner because he believed the man to be an undocumented immigrant and presumably exempt from any criminal indictment or punishment.
An obituary for the victim stated that he was born in Guerrero, Mexico, and much of his family now lives in Baytown, Texas, where the murder took place.
Vaughn is being held on a $500,000 bond and has a court appearance on Monday.
The illegal immigrant’s murder comes amid a ramp up of egregious behavior towards undocumented migrants following the return of Donald Trump to office, who had heavily campaigned of deporting illegals who he has blamed on America’s woes.
