Kevin Villafranca Torres dies in fatal Brownsville shooting
Fatal Brownsville shooting death of Kevin Villafranca Torres – Obituary
Kevin Villafranca Torres, 21, was found with a critical gunshot wound to the head on Friday night in Brownsville, Texas. Responding officers discovered Torres lying unresponsive on the southbound Frontage Road, near 7077 N Expressway 77/83, following a report of a shooting around 8:51 p.m. He was immediately taken to a nearby hospital for urgent medical care.
As Brownsville Police investigated the incident, they gathered witness accounts and reviewed footage, which led them to identify a suspect vehicle — a 2011 red Chevy Cruze registered to an address on Vermont Drive in Harlingen. Following this lead, officers from Brownsville and Harlingen Police Departments located the vehicle, which displayed signs of gunfire, early Saturday morning.
The situation escalated when a standoff ensued after suspects inside the apartment refused to surrender. Harlingen SWAT and Brownsville Police executed a search warrant, eventually deploying a bearcat vehicle to breach a window, which prompted the suspects to peacefully exit the apartment around 7 a.m. Two men and a woman were subsequently arrested and taken into custody.
This tragic event remains under investigation as authorities work to gather further details on the circumstances surrounding Torres’s death.