A source told the Star- Telegram that the tape came from a camera aimed at the site of the shooting. The other five convicts accused of capital murder are Randy Halprin, Michael Anthony Rodriguez, Joseph Garcia, Patrick Murphy Jr. and Donald Newbury. A seventh escapee, Larry Harper, killed himself rather than surrender to police in Colorado. In a letter intercepted at Teller County Jail in Divide, Colo., Rodriguez admitted shooting Hawkins and dragging him out of his patrol car, Sheriff Frank Fehn said Thursday. Fehn said he did not read the letter, which he said was written to a woman.
All mail is intercepted.
It was found to contain those statements. Halprin, in an interview with KTVThannel 11, said he did not fire at Hawkins. The videotape of that interview and other material have been subpoenaed by the district attorney's office. The station is reviewing the subpoena with its attorneys, she said. The escapees were serving prison sentences ranging from 30 years to life at the time of the escape from Connally Unit in Kenedy.