Remembering Miguel "Mike" Venegas this evening, who was the most daring skateboarder I ever hung with as a teenager...
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Triple-ax murder case of 1991
Rubio's activities regarding a triple-axe murder case early in 1991 have continued to be questioned though the matter did not affect his reelection prospects. James D. "Jim" Smiley (1958-1991), a Missouri native, Laredo businessman, and a Baptist deacon, Ruben Martinez, then twenty-one, and Daniel Duenez Capetillo, then fourteen, were murdered in Smiley's home by two teenagers wielding an axe. The killers were Miguel Angel Martinez, then seventeen, and Miguel Venegas, then sixteen. Martinez was given the death penalty and for a time was the youngest person on Texas death row. His punishment was commuted to life imprisonment. Venegas was imprisoned but not tried as an adult.[15]
The axe and knives used in the crime were provided to the killers by Milo Flores, a son of then State District Judge Manuel R. "Meme" Flores. Milo Flores was also the alleged getaway driver.
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