Crime & Courts

Two men charged in shooting death at concrete company

By Amy Renee Leiker
Wichita Police investigate the scene where an employee was found shot in the parking lot of Santana Concrete, 3665 W. McCormick. The man, in his 40s, was found about 7 a.m., still alive, in a vehicle at the business at 3665 W. McCormick, a few blocks east of West Street, police Lt. Doug Nolte said. He died about 7:52 a.m. after being taken to Via Christi Hospital St. Francis. (Feb.21, 2014)
Wichita Police investigate the scene where an employee was found shot in the parking lot of Santana Concrete, 3665 W. McCormick. The man, in his 40s, was found about 7 a.m., still alive, in a vehicle at the business at 3665 W. McCormick, a few blocks east of West Street, police Lt. Doug Nolte said. He died about 7:52 a.m. after being taken to Via Christi Hospital St. Francis. (Feb.21, 2014) The Wichita Eagle

Correction: Efren Antonio Villarreal-Alvarado was 43 when he was killed. Previous versions of this story gave an incorrect age.

Two men arrested last week on suspicion of fatally shooting a concrete company worker in his truck were charged Wednesday with first-degree premeditated murder.

Deon Nolan Hale, 40, and Donnie Lalonde, 33, also each face a count of aggravated robbery in connection with Friday’s killing of Efren Antonio Villarreal-Alvarado, a 43-year-old employee of Santana Concrete.

Co-workers found Villarreal-Alvarado alive with a gunshot wound to his chest when they arrived at the concrete company, 3665 W. McCormick, at about 7:15 a.m. on Friday. He was in his truck in the business’s parking lot, police have said.

He died at a local hospital less than an hour later.

Police said last week that robbery motivated the shooting. A criminal complaint filed in Sedgwick County District Court on Wednesday against Hale and Lalonde accuse the pair of stealing Villarreal-Alvarado’s wallet, keys, cellphone and identification the morning of the shooting.

Bond for each man was set at $1.5 million in the case. They are due back in court March 12.

On an application for a court-appointed attorney, Hale listed his name as Auriel Orion Huntstwobears. At his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon, he told Judge Joe Kisner that Hale was not his correct name.

Kansas Department of Corrections records list the Huntstwobears name as an alias for Hale. He was paroled in Reno County in 2011 after serving prison time on a conviction of reckless second-degree murder for a crime in Douglas County in 1997. His sentence expired Aug. 28.

Lalonde has convictions for rape and aggravated sexual battery for crimes committed in 2001 in Geary County. He was paroled in Sedgwick County in 2009 after serving prison time, state corrections records show. His sentence in that case expired July 23, 2012.

This story was originally published February 26, 2014 at 4:35 PM with the headline "Two men charged in shooting death at concrete company."

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