Block Party!!! And Public Notice on Homeless Crisis Center
Ian Dille
PUBLIC NOTICE
Violent Crime Surrounds Greenbriar East Oltorf Neighborhood Closest to Proposed Homeless Crisis and Navigation Center that will be Operated by Sunrise Community Church
The East Oltorf corridor has been called an “open air drug market” and the new “12th and Chicon” by Austin police at community safety meetings.
Following the reinstatement of the City’s camping ban in 2021, people suffering from drug addiction were removed from Heritage Oaks, Mabel Davis, and Roy Guerrero parks, and along East Riverside Dr. Many of these individuals began living on the street along East Oltorf.
Efforts to permanently house or relocate this vulnerable population have failed. The constant presence of drug addicts and the subsequent decline of the neighborhoods along East Oltorf has drawn to our community violent criminals—“without regard for human life,” according to Austin police. Serial killers and teenage gangs roam neighborhoods. Charles Loosen of the Homeless Strategy Office told residents at a community meeting that he is scared for his own safety when forced to stop at the pedestrian crossing signal at Burton Dr. and East Oltorf.
Violent criminals prey upon the most vulnerable members of our community. Bringing hundreds of additional people suffering from severe drug addiction and mental illness to East Oltorf through the proposed homeless crisis and navigation center is like delivering fresh meat to a lion’s den. Gun owning residents have offered to protect their unarmed neighbors.
Below is a list of thirteen extremely disturbing murders that have occurred over the last two years within and nearby the Greenbriar East Oltorf neighborhood, which borders the proposed homeless crisis and navigation center. East Oltorf residents have also experienced and personally witnessed numerous assaults, home invasions, burglaries, and other serious crimes.
The Greenbriar East Oltorf neighborhood is collecting and disseminating crime data and resident testimonies in opposition to the proposed homeless crisis and navigation center. If you live in this community and would like to contribute your testimony, please email Greenbriar East Oltorf neighborhood representative Ian Dille at i...@iandille.com
Members of the media please contact Greenbriar East Oltorf neighborhood association president Nichole Friday at nichole...@gmail.com
MURDERS
Date: September 26, 2023
Location: East Oltorf and Greenfield Parkway
Distance to proposed homeless crisis and navigation center: 0.3 miles
Keith Bedford, 40, was shot and killed at approximately 11AM at the Greenfield Parkway apartment complex across from the Palms carwash and Gulf gas station. An investigator with the Texas Rangers canvassed homes on Glen Springs Way in the Greenbriar East Oltorf neighborhood requesting video surveillance footage.
Moses Mohinga, 23, was arrested a month later and sentenced to 65 years for the murder. Authorities reported finding Mohinga in possession of narcotics and a firearm.
An alleged accomplice, Dekatur Dalon Richey, 24, was apprehended in November of 2023 after a three-hour standoff with police at an apartment complex on Metric Boulevard. After the start of Richey’s trial for murder, it was revealed that District Attorney José Garza failed to share crucial evidence with the defense. The case was dismissed. Due to double jeopardy, Richey cannot be re-tried for the murder of Keith Bedford.
Date: January 1, 2024
Location: 4900 East Oltorf
Distance to proposed homeless crisis and navigation center: 1.5 miles
Naomi Davis, 19, was shot and killed by Martin Rodriguez while the couple was watching TV at another couple’s apartment. Rodriguez then shot and wounded himself, but survived.
Rodriguez had been arrested on December 1, 2023 for unlawfully carrying a weapon as a felon. He was released the same day on a personal recognizance bond, which is granted by a judge and generally means a person doesn't have to pay any amount but must agree to show up for their court dates.
Date: June 21, 2024
Location: 2600 Metcalfe Road
Distance to proposed homeless crisis and navigation center: 0.6 miles
Alyssa Ann Rivera, 34, was raped and strangled to death inside an abandoned property on Metcalfe Dr. Police released video footage of Rivera walking down Burleson Rd. near East Oltorf with an unidentified man.
Police linked DNA from Rivera’s crime scene to the 2018 rape and murder of Alba Jenisse Aviles, 28, who was last seen at Club Caribe, less than three miles from Metcalfe Rd.
Law enforcement investigating the suspected serial killings stated: It is “relatively rare” for someone committing "really violent murders" not to have been arrested or detained for a previous crime. The suspect in the killings remains at-large.
Date: June 26, 2024
Location: 2500 Sheringham Drive
Distance to proposed homeless crisis and navigation center: 1.3 miles
Ricardo Martinez, 39, and Aldo Edgar Romero-Milan, 29, were shot and killed near a homeless encampment at approximately 11:30PM. A third, un-named man who had threatened Romero-Milan with a machete, was also shot but survived.
Hector Olvera was arrested in September and charged with murder. A witness stated Olvera emerged from the woods and shot the three men, allegedly in relation to a romantic dispute.
Olvera was also charged for a shooting in July, stolen vehicle charges from July and September, and a mail theft charge from an incident in July. Olvera previously faced dozens of charges involving theft dating back to 2007.
Date: July 18, 2024
Location: 2101 Burton Drive
Distance to proposed homeless crisis and navigation center: 0.7 miles
Jose Ramon Lizarraga Boca Negra, 39, was shot and killed inside an apartment at the Array apartment complex.
No suspect was named and no arrest has been made.
Date: July 24, 2024
Location: 2101 Burton Drive
Distance to proposed homeless crisis and navigation center: 0.7 miles
At approximately 10:30AM, Javier Antonio Navarro Quesada, 23, was stabbed to death in the parking lot of the Array apartment complex. This was the second murder on Burton Dr. in one week.
Alex Trevino Garcia, 34, was arrested for the murder of Quesada. Garcia told police that Quesada had stolen his vehicle.
A 16-year-old passenger in Quesada’s vehicle told detectives they had come to Burton Dr. to purchase drugs. When she was walking back to the car, she said a man was also walking up to the car with a knife in his hand.
Date: October 14, 2024
Location: 1805 Burton Drive
Distance to proposed homeless crisis and navigation center: 1 mile
At approximately 7AM, Francis Anseume-Corredo, 27, and Bryan Flores Alvarez, 22, were discovered with gunshot wounds inside a vehicle parked at an apartment complex on Burton Dr.
An AMBER alert was issued for Anseume-Corredo’s three young children, who were unaccounted for at the time of her death.
Police arrested the father of two of Anseume-Corredo’s children, Sherles Machado-Hernandez, 31, after discovering him nearby, hiding in the back seat of his brother’s SUV. Machado-Hernandez had dropped the children off with a family member prior to allegedly killing Anseume-Corredo and her current boyfriend, Alvarez.
Date: October 16, 2024
Location: 2121 Burton Drive
Distance to proposed homeless crisis and navigation center: 0.6 miles
Keshawn Cage, 20, was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head at approximately 10:35PM near the intersection of Burton Dr and East Oltorf. This was the third murder on Burton Dr in one week and the fifth murder in three months.
In November, police arrested 18-year-old Stephon Morson. A witness told investigators Morson shot Cage at close range following an argument about Cage allegedly cooperating with law enforcement in a previous case involving his ex-girlfriend.
District Attorney José Garza failed to meet the 90 day deadline to present the case against Morson to a grand jury. A Travis County Judge subsequently reduced Morson’s bail from $800,000 to $100 and he was given bond without a GPS monitoring system or restrictions against travel.
Date: December 21, 2024
Location: 2504 Huntwick Drive
Distance to proposed homeless crisis and navigation center: 1.2 miles
Mario Damian-Rayas, 34, a well-known member of the Austin cycling community was shot and killed at the Chevy Chase apartment complex. Surveillance video showed a man approaching Damian-Rayas’s car and firing 15 shots before leaving the scene.
In March, Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Gomez, 26, was arrested and charged with murder.
Police said they connected Rodriguez-Gomez to the shooting of Damian-Rayas through ballistics evidence that linked shell cases to two other incidents. Rodriguez-Gomez allegedly used the same gun in an aggravated assault, and fired the gun near a crowd of people close to the Moody Center on UT's campus.
Date: March 8, 2025
Location: 2336 Douglas St
Distance to proposed homeless crisis and navigation center: 0.8 miles
Infowars writer Jamie White, 36, was shot and killed at the Chandelier apartments after trying to stop a group of people from stealing his Kia.
Four teenage suspects were charged with murder: 17-year-old Eloy Adrian Camarillo, 17-year-old Rodney Charles Hill, and two 15-year-old males who have not been identified. All of the suspects are from Austin, according to the Austin Police Department.
In an interview with Fox News, White’s friend Yecca Aaron said, “The part of Austin where he lived was a pretty bad area. Dangerous. A lot of homeless. A lot of crime. I have other friends who live in that area who’ve dealt with crime and break-ins as well. This wasn’t the first time his car was broken into. I would get upset every time he would renew his lease there, just because of how bad that area of Austin was.”
Date: June 22, 2025
Location: 2101 Wickersham Lane
Distance to proposed homeless crisis and navigation center: 1.5 miles
Keaton Delcore, 29, was shot and killed following an interaction with another man at the Apple Mart gas station. Delcore had an 11-year-old son.
Vondell Crawford, 28, was arrested on June 26 and charged with murder.
Police have not said why Delcore approached Crawford or whether the men knew each other.
RESIDENT TESTIMONY
We live near the car wash at East Oltorf and Greenfield Parkway, where we routinely witness open drug use and individuals visibly under the influence, disoriented and unpredictable.
Recently, a car was stolen from the 7-Eleven on East Oltorf—long identified by neighbors as a hub for drug activity—and crashed into the retaining wall in my front yard. If the wall had not been there, the car would have slammed into my house.
One afternoon, an unhoused man under the influence tried to open my wife’s car door while our 4-year-old daughter was inside. We’ve also had repeated incidents of people loitering in our yard. These experiences have left us feeling unsafe in our own home.
These are an isolated concerns but part of a larger pattern that is making families here feel increasingly unsafe.
– Blaine Carpenter, Greenbriar East Oltorf
My husband and I live on Glen Springs Way at the corner of Parker Lane. We had a homeless woman enter our home through the front door at dusk. She was not fully clothed and seemed to be experiencing a drug-induced episode. My husband, Adam, forcibly removed her from our living room and called 911. The police and EMS responded and she was revived on our front lawn. It was a traumatizing experience for us.
A couple months later, I was waiting to make a left turn at the light on the corner of Parker and Oltorf when a homeless man tried to get into the backseat of my car. He was pulling on the back door handle forcefully and repeatedly. Luckily, the doors were locked. I was fearful for my safety.
Not long after, while I was at work and my husband was out of town for work, there was a homeless woman in my living room at 11:30am. She took items from a guest bedroom and ate some food from the refrigerator and freezer. When our dog walker arrived at our house, she interrupted the woman, asked her to leave, and called 911.
I was shaken. I no longer feel that my home and my neighborhood is safe.
– Tammy Richards, Greenbriar East Oltorf
I was on a walk when I witnessed a woman burglazing my neighbor Tammy’s home, and briefly spoke with her dog walker who was on a call with 911. Police were not responding to the call, so I followed the woman who had robbed Tammy’s home toward Parker Ln. and East Oltorf. I figured I could try and get a photo of the woman for the police. When I got to the intersection of Parker Ln. and Oltorf there were a number of police and squad cars at The Social apartment complex. I walked over to talk to the police, and was told by an officer that they had just responded to a stabbing and that all the police in the area were at The Social. The victim of the stabbing, a middle-aged woman, was sitting on the curb, shaking and awaiting medical attention. Two officers volunteered to go to Tammy’s house to investigate the burglary.
We have two young children, ages 11 and 8, who attend our neighborhood schools. They will not walk or ride their bikes to school anymore because there are often people passed out on the sidewalk on the route we take to school in the mornings. When we return from school in the afternoons, there are often people using and dealing drugs at the Palms carwash, Gulf gas station and 7-11, in addition to other criminal hot spots in our neighborhood. We have tried to shield our kids from learning about the violent crime because it gives them severe anxiety.
We’ve lived in Greenbriar East Oltorf since 2012, and cherish this community. The increase in crime over the last few years has caused many of our neighborhood’s families to leave.
– Ian Dille, Greenbriar East Oltorf
On June 12, we awoke to banging on the sliding glass door that leads to our backyard. It was between two and three in the morning. A man was yelling that he used to live in our home five years ago and needed to come in. We’ve been here since 1983. I am 76, and my husband, Gordon, is 77. Gordon has been suffering from a serious back injury for the past several years.
Gordon opened the door to talk to the man and the man tried to force his way into our home.
Gordon began fighting the man back with a walking stick. During their altercation, the man ripped the screen door and the glass door shattered.
I ran down to the street and began screaming for help. I was hoping one of our neighbor’s dogs would start barking. The police went to the wrong address and woke up those residents before coming to our home. By the time the police arrived the man had run off.
I am concerned. I hate to see this, I really do.
– Sheila Sargent, Greenbriar East Oltorf
Eddie Gamez
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East Riverside Oltorf Combined Neighborhood Planning Organization
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