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Police arrest 19-year-old ‘person of interest’ in Brownsville museum director’s murder
October 27th, 2009
- Ernesto Ivan Martinez (ValleyCentral.com)
Barry Horn (ValleyCentral.com)
Police have arrested a 19-year-old man who’s been identified as a “person of interest” in the murder of Brownsville museum director Barry Horn, The Brownsville Herald reports. Ernesto Ivan Martinez previously lived with the 59-year-old Horn and they are believed to have been lovers until a recent falling out, according to Action 4 News (Valley Central.com). Horn was found stabbed to death at his Brownsville home over the weekend, and police say there were signs of a struggle. Horn’s vehicle and other personal items were missing from the home. Martinez was taken into custody on Monday by border patrol officers at the B&M International Bridge. He is currently charged with felony auto theft. Horn was the executive director of the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, and a scholarship has been established in his name at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, where he worked for many years.
Tags: Barry Horn, Brownsville, crime, Ernesto Ivan Martinez
October 27th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
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October 27th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
sugar daddy
October 29th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Pretty sad, glad they caught this little creep. Fry him.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
A Houston friend who knew the deceased reports to me that the two were not in fact lovers.
October 31st, 2009 at 8:08 pm
are you sure they were not lovers? does it make a difference if they were or not. is the this little creep going to use the gay panic defense? is he still gay regardless of whether they were lovers nor not??
November 5th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Yea he was a sugar daddy indeed because no gay man that handsome would lay with something like that without financial compensation! LOL!!
November 18th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
It is good that the police caught the 19 year old and the investigation is under process. If he is found guilty then the actual reason behind the murder should be known. As no one would just murder a person without any reason.