Conviction in Peru shooting
07/03/2024

(KLZA)-- 60-year-old Guadalupe DeLaCruz was convicted of one charge but found “not guilty” of 11 separate charges Tuesday, including first-degree assault and child abuse, filed against him in relation to a 2022 shooting incident in Peru, Nebraska.

DeLaCruz was found guilty of one count carrying a concealed weapon.

DeLaCruz was initially accused of entering his neighbor- house in the area of Washington and 6th Street in Peru during a dispute and discharging a handgun twice, injuring Mark Dupre.

Dupre claimed at the time that his pregnant fiancé was present and that seeing DeLaCruz enter his home

Dupre is in prison now, serving a 15 year sentence out of Fremont County, Iowa, for stabbing a man to death in May 2023. Both he and his fiancé, Katelan Jacobs, were arrested in connection to that incident.



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