On August 30, 1998, Johnny Rodriguez was charged with murder in the shooting death of an acquaintance he mistook for a burglar. Rodriguez was charged in the shooting death of Israel Borrego, an unemployed laborer he met a few months previous. Borrego died at a hospital after being shot once in the abdomen. Allen Brown, Rodriguez's attorney said the singer thought Borrego was a burglar and acted in self-defense. Rodriguez had 20 top-10 hits before derailing his career in a haze of drugs, alcohol and divorce. He shot and killed Israel Borrego, claiming afterward that Borrego had entered Rodriguez's mother's house uninvited. If convicted he faced 99 years behind bars. Certainly the ballad of Rodriguez seemed over the top at times. The eighth of nine children born to a Hispanic welder and an Irish mother, Rodriguez was an athletic kid who never had much interest in books. At 12, he turned to music, learning chords from his father, Andres, and his older brother Andres Jr. Johnny appeared in his first talent contest at fourteen and formed his first band at sixteen. In 1969, he was locked up for alcohol possession and everything changed. Famed Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson, who had heard Rodriguez sing at picnics, persuaded the local sheriff to put Rodriguez on probation. Then he helped the young man land a job singing at the Alamo Village, a tourist attraction in Brackettville, Texas (TX) where Rodriguez met well-known country singer Tom T. Hall. When Hall invited him to join ...
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