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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — University of Texas President Greg Fenves says the school won't change its pending rules for allowing concealed handguns on campus after a first-year student was killed last week.
State law requires Texas public schools to allow concealed weapons on campus starting Aug. 1.
The University of Texas plan permits concealed handgun license holders to have their weapons in most classrooms and buildings, but not dorms. They will not be allowed to have a bullet in the chamber of semi-automatic weapons.
Fenves says his goal is to make campus safe for everyone.
Eighteen-year-old dance major Haruka Weiser was killed on campus last week. Police have arrested 17-year-old suspect Meechaiel Criner.
Students for Concealed Carry said Monday that Weiser's murder shows the need to allow weapons across all areas of campus.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A ruling on extraditing a woman who is on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted fugitives list for the killing of her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend in Texas could come anywhere from two to 12 months from now, a Mexican official said Saturday.
The federal official, who was not authorized to be named discussing the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the United States has a 60-day window to formally request the extradition of Brenda Delgado, who was captured by Mexican agents in the city of Torreon, in the northern state of Coahuila.
At that point the process that could be as quick as two months if she does not challenge extradition, or up to a year if she does.
Delgado, 33, was being held at a Mexico City prison, the Mexican Attorney General's Office said Friday. She faces charges of capital murder and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in connection with the September death of Dr. Kendra Hatcher, a dentist.
Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk told Dallas-Fort Worth television station KTVT that an extradition agreement between Mexico and the U.S. requires that the death penalty not be allowed. Hawk said Delgado faces life in prison, if convicted.
Hatcher, 35, was gunned down in the parking garage of her Dallas apartment complex. Prosecutors allege that Delgado hired two accomplices - one of them the gunman - to carry out the hit. Both alleged accomplices are in custody.
Delgado told one of them she was connected with a cartel and could provide him with a steady source of drugs if he carried out the killing, according to an FBI statement.
"He thought he had an in with the cartel," Dallas police Detective Lee Thompson said, according to the statement.
It's believed that Delgado fled the country shortly after Dallas investigators questioned her about the killing, federal authorities said.
Investigators say Delgado was jealous because Hatcher was dating her ex-boyfriend and had recently been introduced to his parents.
The boyfriend had dated Delgado for about two years before his relationship with Hatcher.
The FBI has named more than 500 people to the agency's most-wanted list since it was established in 1950. Delgado, who is a Mexican citizen, is just the ninth woman to make the list.
It was only Wednesday when the FBI announced that she had been added to the list, calling her a "master manipulator." A reward of $100,000 was offered for her capture, but it wasn't clear whether it will be paid based on a tip.
The Mexican government said that after it received a capture request from U.S. authorities, its Agency of Criminal Investigation deployed teams to look for Delgado in places where she had family or relatives that could have helped her: in the states of San Luis Potosi, Nuevo Leon and Mexico, as well as in Mexico City.
The Attorney General's Office said she was tracked down in Torreon, which is about 190 miles (300 kilometers) west of Nuevo Leon state, with unspecified cooperation from U.S. authorities.
Delgado was located at a private home on a narrow residential street of blocky, one- and two-story homes that invariably have bars on windows and gates.
Agency officers attached to Interpol took her to the Santa Marta Acatitla prison in the Mexican capital.
Mexico has extradited a number of its citizens to the United States over the years, notably including top drug cartel leaders. Notorious Sinaloa cartel capo Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, for one, is currently battling his own extradition in the courts.
Capital punishment has been abolished in Mexico, and the country seeks assurances that suspects will not face the death penalty in the U.S. before agreeing to send them there.
DALLAS (AP) -- A man who was slain at an upscale suburban Dallas shopping center is identified in federal court documents as the acting leader of a notorious Mexican cartel, a claim that would run counter to the long-held belief that drug kingpins seldom try to hide in the United States.
Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa moved into a million-dollar home in Southlake in 2011, two years before he was fatally shot by three men who prosecutors say had been stalking him for months.
According to a recent court filing submitted by the lawyers for Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Cepeda - one of three suspects slated to stand trial for Chapa's killing - Chapa became the interim head of the Gulf Cartel - one of Mexico's most violent drug-trafficking rings - following the arrest of predecessor Osiel Cardenas-Guillen, who was extradited to the U.S. in 2007 and later sentenced to 25 years in prison.
As head of the Gulf Cartel, "Chapa ran a large criminal enterprise whose activities included murders, narcotics trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, bribery, money laundering and torture," the court filing says.
It appears Chapa in part was seeking anonymity with his family in moving to the Dallas metro region. Court records said he had been living in fear because "he had been found by people who wanted to kill him."
Federal officials say it's unusual to find high-ranking gang leaders like Chapa in Texas, and particularly North Texas, a region the cartels over the years have used as a jumping off point to spread their drug distribution network. The Dallas region, fed by several freeways and small airports, allows for direct routes into the Midwest and beyond.
Ledezma-Cepeda and the two other defendants are scheduled to stand trial later this month on charges including conspiracy to commit murder for hire and interstate stalking.
One of Ledezma-Cepeda's attorneys, Wes Ball, said Chapa headed the Gulf Cartel in a transitional or interim capacity. Federal authorities have said Chapa was Cardenas-Guillen's lawyer and a principle figure in the cartel's operation.
Cartels often have lower-level members living in the U.S. to broaden drug-trafficking efforts, Russ Baer, a spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said in a statement. These operatives are usually in the states for limited periods and then rotated back to Mexico to avoid law enforcement scrutiny.
However, upper-level leaders usually do not live in the U.S. due to the increased likelihood of capture, Baer said.
Ball added that the trial for the three men charged in Chapa's death could offer a rare look into cartel operations.
"Most of your cartel heads never go to trial, they almost always plead guilty," Ball said. "So public trials where all the nitty gritty details are laid out is actually pretty rare."
Chapa's death near Dallas in 2013 came the same month as the conviction in Austin of the brother of two top leaders for a competing cartel.
Jose Trevino Morales and others used proceeds from U.S. drug sales to purchase American quarter horses and launder the money. Court records show the operation was based out of suburban Dallas, and Trevino Morales was found to have invested $16 million of drug money in the buying, training and racing of horses across the Southwest United States.
Trevino Morales is the brother of two former leaders of the Zetas, an organization that has expanded beyond the drug trade to become the biggest criminal group in Mexico. One of the men was captured in 2013 by Mexican authorities and the other two years later.
In another case, Juan Francisco Saenz-Tamez was arrested by federal agents in 2014 while shopping in the South Texas city of Edinburg. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has said Saenz-Tamez was a leader of the Gulf Cartel.