KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A man arrested in Mexico last week on four first-degree murder charges following an October shooting at a Kansas City, Kansas, bar is now jailed in Wyandotte County.
The Kansas City Star reports that jail records show Hugo Villanueva-Morales, 30, was booked Saturday night into the Wyandotte County Detention Center on a $1 million bond.
Villanueva-Morales also faces federal charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in connection with four deaths at the Tequila KC bar on Oct. 6. Five others were wounded in the shooting. Javier Alatorre, 23, is also charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Alatorre was arrested shortly after the shooting and also is jailed on $1 million bond.
Police have said the shooting apparently stemmed from an earlier dispute inside the bar, prompting the two men to return to the bar with handguns and start shooting. Officers had responded to reports of a disturbance at a bar two hours before a shooting.
At the time of the shooting, Villanueva-Morales was facing a pending third-degree assault charge in Missouri. Court documents say he fought with a sheriff’s deputy in August after another man was ordered to leave a club in Kansas City, Missouri. Alatorre, meanwhile, faced several charges stemming from a police chase. An order of protection also was issued against him in 2017.
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