Illegal immigrant faces murder charge in Ozark County

by Chad Plein, KY3 News

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GAINESVILLE, Mo. -- A man living in Ozark County is charged with second-degree murder after a shooting during a family outing Sunday near Mammoth. The victim was a man from Mountain Home, Ark.

The shooting was next to Lick Creek near Mammoth, south of Gainesville, on private property near Big Rock swimming hole. A family of about 10 from Mountain Home was enjoying their Sunday, swimming and cooking hot dogs, when the owners came down to confront them.

“There was an argument, push came to shove, a gun was drawn,” said Sheriff Raymond Pace.

Pace says that's when Jesus Sesena-Murrieta, 26, whose fiancée owns the property along the creek, fired four shots in the direction of Alonzo Foster Jr., 22.

Foster died late Sunday night. Sesena-Murrieta, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action.

On Monday, a dog from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from Kansas City searched for the gun that a detective says Sesena-Murrieta admitted using. Pace said the gun wasn't found by late Monday afternoon.

“It's just sad; a (man) is dead over nothing,” said Pace.

Sesena-Murrieta was in the Ozark County jail with no bond set on Monday.

Pace says this is just latest in a string of gun-related and violent crimes that his officers have been investigating.

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