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Personal vengeance drove killing of Southlake drug cartel lawyer, defendants say

Juan Jesús Guerrero Chapa went to Southlake Town Center with his wife to do a little shopping and eat some frozen yogurt but he never left the parking lot after being shot several times as a result of Mexican drug cartel violence.

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