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Laredo man accused of killing family in Alice

By KGNS News

Story Created: Mar 17, 2012 at 12:12 AM CDT

Story Updated: Mar 17, 2012

A Laredo man is in custody charged with three counts of capital murder after his girlfriend and her two sons were stabbed at her home in Alice early Friday.

Alice Police Chief Daniel Bueno says 24-year-old Phillip Jesus Chapa was arrested without incident at his home hours after police
found 41-year-old Michelle Hughes and her sons, 20-year-old Ivan
Joshua Hughes and 15-year-old William Bryan Hughes.

The 911 call came to police shortly before 4 a.m. and Bueno says
it appeared there had been an ongoing domestic dispute. He said
Chapa was under the influence of alcohol when arrested. Chapa
remained in the Jim Wells County Jail Friday on bond totaling $2.25
million. He did not yet have a lawyer.

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