Augustin Villasenor, a 36-year-old Hispanic assistant manager at the Mi-T-Fine Car Wash in Irving, Texas, was killed on March 20, 2000, in Dallas during a multiple-victim attack that left five people dead. Victims included Villasenor, his brother Benjamin Villasenor, Roberto Jimenez Jr., car wash manager Dennis Lee, and cashier Rhoda Wheeler. The alleged perpetrator, Robert Wayne Harris, was a former employee reportedly fired days before the killings. Harris confessed to the killings multiple times, though he initially pleaded not guilty at trial.

Harris was convicted of capital murder for the deaths of Augustin Villasenor and Rhoda Wheeler and was sentenced to death by lethal injection; the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence in February 2003. He was also charged in the deaths of Benjamin Villasenor, Roberto Jimenez Jr., and Dennis Lee, but was not tried for those specific murders. The defense raised mental health and intellectual issues including depression, anti-social behavior, a low IQ, and Tourette’s syndrome during the proceedings.

Does anyone have memories of Augustin, his family, or information about that day that could shed more light on the victims and how the community responded?