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| Gregorio Leon, 49, (pictured) called 911 and turned himself in after he shot and killed his wife's lover |
As reported by Dailymail, A
restaurateur in South Carolina called 911 dispatchers on Valentine's Day and
said: 'I shot my wife's lover'.
Gregorio Leon, 49, turned himself in
on Sunday night after fatally shooting Arturo Pereyra Bravo in a parking lot in
Lexington around 8.30pm, according to authorities.
Leon, who owns several Mexican
restaurants in the state, was previously charged for bribing the police in
order to keep illegal immigrants employed at his restaurants.
The father of eight is charged with
murder, the attempted murder of his wife, discharging a firearm into an
occupied vehicle and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent
crime.
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| Gregorio Leon |
According to a warrant, wife Maria
Rachel Leon and Bravo were in the back seat of a Toyota Tundra pickup truck at
a park-and-ride lot off Highway I-20, designed for commuters to stop and pick
up other passengers for carpooling.
'The defendant opened the rear
passenger door and fired a handgun multiple times', according to the documents.
Police appeared on the scene around
8.30pm on Sunday, and found the man's body on the ground between two vehicles.
A security camera
captured the shooting, according to the warrants.
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| The victim, named as Arturo Pereyra Bravo in a warrant, was in the back seat of a pickup truck with Maria Rachel Leon in a park-and-ride lot off Highway I-20 in Lexington, South Carolina (pictured) |
Authorities confirmed
the victim was having an affair with Leon's wife. He was named in the warrants,
although the Lexington County coroner's office have not officially identified
the dead man's body.
The wife was not
injured.
Leon appeared in a
magistrates' court in the county jail, and is likely to appear before a circuit
judge later this week, according to one of Leon's attorneys.
Leon owns six locations
of the Mexican restaurant San Jose, which he runs with other family members,
and two locations of the restaurant Pancho's, which is named after his son.
Leon was part of a
corruption scheme in 2014, when he was charged with a felony by a State Grand
Jury for bribing a police officer.
Leon would give money to
town councilman Danny Frazier, who would then ask Lexington County Sheriff
James Metts to help the illegal immigrants from being deported so they could
keep working at Leon's restaurants.
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| Leon owns several locations of the San Jose restaurant chain, as well as two locations of Pancho's. He was charged with bribing a police officer in 2014, but evaded jail time |
Metts was sentenced to
one year, and Leon evaded jail time, receiving five years probation and 200
hours of community service instead.
In November, Leon pleaded
guilty to employing 60 illegal immigrants from Mexico. He was fined $180,000
and put on probation, which banned him from possessing a gun.
In 2012, Leon and family
members Eraclio Leon and Antonio Leon paid 37 employees more than $390,000 in
back wages after an investigation by the US Department of Labor.
He was also arrested in
2002 and fined for cockfighting in 2006.
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