The murder dubbed "The Rainbow Killer". Police have little to go on and are asking people in the gay community to come forward with information on the man captured in surveillance photos.
according to poplar gay blogs 360 Condos are popular in the gay community:
from http://joemygod.blogspot.com
Jackhoffsky Vegaslamb • a day ago
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◦ Plus, 360 Condos is almost nothing but gay people. there's always a party going on. I mean, if you met at Oil Can's and then go back to 360, you can't really use "gay panic" as a defense. That being said, it opens this up to a variety of possibilities. I am NOT reading into anything just yet (especially as tragic as this is), but honestly, my first impression on watching the vid was that they both seemed like they were in a good mood. That's just me though. This is so sad. We are such a small community here sometimes.
from a previous post:
Death At 360 Condominiums
Police claim to have video surviellence from the time period in question. Police state the video shows a white male in his 20s to early 30s, with a slender to medium build. Police are investigating.
Police allege the men met downtown and proceed to David Villarreal's condo. They believe the date went wrong.
from : AUSTIN (KXAN) - Detectives said Tuesday they have video of a possible suspect in the death of a 37-year-old man at the 360 Condominiums.
Police Sgt. Anthony Hipolito said around 9:45 pm on Monday, they received a 911 call alerting them of a missing person. The caller said they had not seen the victim in a couple days.
Officers went to the building at 360 Nueces Street and found a David Villarreal dead inside a unit on the 18th floor with traumatic injuries.
Homicide detectives were called to the scene and a preliminary investigation showed possible signs of trauma to the body. That led detectives to believe the death was suspicious.
About 3 p.m. Tuesday, detectives said they had video of a possible suspect. The person is described as a white male in his 20s to early 30s, with a slender to medium build. The video has not yet been released.
Police said they don't know the relation between the 911 caller and the victim.
Homicide detectives are expected to continue their investigation on Tuesday. Hipolito said at this point, he doesn't believe residents at the condo should we worried about their safety.
APD is asking the public to call 512-472-TIPS (8477) with any information.
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◦ Jackhoffsky Vegaslamb • a day ago
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▪ William Jackhoffsky • a day ago
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▪ My partner did some work at that building. Mostly alarm and security related, along with general ass-kissing for people with more money than sense. He said he had never seen so many hookers.
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▪ Claude Jacques Bonhomme William • 21 hours ago
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▪ Thank your partner for the security camera that caught that picture, even if the resolution is so-so. They found the 'Boston bombers' with lo resolution pics, later enhanced.
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▪ William Claude Jacques Bonhomme • 17 hours ago
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▪ My partner didn't have anything to do with setting up the cameras. His employer called it 'cross training'. Turned out, they needed someone to fill in while an employee there was away.
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▪ Claude Jacques Bonhomme William • 9 hours ago
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▪ You can still give him a kiss for us...
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▪ Jackhoffsky William • a day ago
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▪ "hookers"... in many, many senses of the word.
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▪ William Jackhoffsky • a day ago
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▪ That should have been female hookers.
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◦ You'd think, but where did Matthew Shepard meet his attackers again?
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And of course, KXAN is avoiding all mention of "gay" or "Oilcan Harry's."
KEYE is at least saying "Oilcan Harry's," as is KVUE.
Gotta love local news, even in Austin.
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• KXAN said the two men were seen at Oil Can on the 6pm news and mentioned a longtime partner of David, but gave no name. You'd think the 360 would have higher resolution security cameras. KEYE had a report Tuesday about men meeting up in parks and public restrooms for sex.
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◦ And it's not even sweeps!
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▪ William e jerry powell • a day ago
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▪ I think Judy likes reporting those sorts of stories and seeing how many times she can say the words, "your children". She worked at KVUE back when they wouldn't say 'gay', only "people with alternative lifestyles".
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Posted by: datlaw | Jul 17, 2013 10:37:46 PM
This is a shame. People go to bars, they pick people up. It's almost always fun and so rarely ends in murder.
Posted by: Omar | Jul 17, 2013 10:53:19 PM
Reminder to everyone - don't go home with a stranger you just met a few hours before.
Posted by: Sad | Jul 18, 2013 1:12:35 AM
bandanajack is right.
This kind of stuff happens a lot more than people realize.
The number of missing persons continues to explode, and I believe many of them are gay.
The FBI released a report in mid or late 2012 that estimated that gang member numbers increased 40% in the last 2 years.
There are thousands and thousands of Matthew Shepard types of crimes every year, and most of which will never be known, as I believe, because most of them are missing.
And most of use 'gays' don't want to deal with that reality because we already have to deal with so much negativity from oppression and persecution that will just can't take anymore sometime.
If you're gay, and not a gay rights activist, you need to become one, myself included.
Someone has to put these pieces of trash in prison, and we can't count on law enforcement and the government to do real due-diligence in all cases.
Posted by: Kevin LS | Jul 18, 2013 5:59:24 AM
Newsflash:
There are bad gay and bi men and women with bad intent, who prey on gay and bi men and women. Not every murder of a gay man involves an evil homophobic 'straight', less still gang initiation.
Is it a wise thing to leave a bar with a stranger you've only slightly know and go home with him? No, it's not.
Posted by: ratbastard | Jul 18, 2013 11:47:56 AM
Guys who do things like what this murderer did are usually desperate, often serious drug addicts, excons, etc., He and pretty much everybody else know perfectly well there are CCTV cameras all over the place and in this case he was observed by witnesses and cameras leaving the bar with his victim, entering and leaving his victim's condo building. They do it anyway. Go figure. Hopefully, somebody who knows him, and maybe needs to cop a plea for their own criminal charges, will rat him out. Or he'll get caught some other way and claim it was an accident or some such BS.
Posted by: ratbastard | Jul 18, 2013 11:52:33 AM
