CARROLLTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – After seven years in the run, the man accused in the murder of a Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD employee has been captured in Mexico and returned to the United States.
Carrollton Police said Gerardo Alvarez is charged with murder in the shooting death of CFBISD Groundskeeping Supervisor Todd Fenton.
A school bus dispatcher discovered Fenton’s body on the night of October 2, 2013 in the maintenance barn office at the CFBISD Service Center, he’d been shot several times in the back.
Investigators said Alvarez, who worked under Fenton at the time, was seen on surveillance video at the time of the shooting and did not show up for work the next day.
Detectives had determined that he had already fled to Mexico.
After a joint investigation between the U.S. Marshals Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force, Carrollton Police and Mexican authorities, Alvarez was captured in October 2020 by Mexican authorities in the State of Durango.
His bid to fight extradition failed.
According to a news release from The Carrollton Police Department, U.S. Marshals transported Alvarez to DFW International Airport and handed him over the Carrollton Police.
“This arrest was the result of dogged determination and great police work by all involved,” said Carrollton Police Chief Derick Miller. “The partnership of the U.S. Marshals, our own detective assigned to their fugitive task force, as well as the authorities in Mexico will finally allow the family of Todd Fenton some measure of peace. It may have been justice delayed, but it was not denied.”
Police have not revealed a motive for the killing.
Alvarez is in custody in the Dallas County Jail on a murder charge.
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