No Arrests Months After Dallas Father Shot, Killed Outside Of Home
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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Four months after a Dallas father was found dead in his driveway, his family is hoping reward money may help solve his murder.
They are offering five thousand dollars to anyone who can catch Rafael Castillo's killer.
His 15-year-old daughter Jackie says when he died, she lost her best friend.
"I love him so much. I don't know why someone would do this to us," she said. "It's been really hard for all of us."
Jackie and her 3-year-old sister, Milani now wear necklaces with his thumbprint.
His mother keeps asking why he had to die.
Castillo went out with friends on December 8. At 1 am, his wife, Mary, heard gunshots but didn't see anyone outside. When Castillo wasn't home by the next morning to fix Milani's hair or take his girls to school, his family started searching. They found him in his parked car, with the engine still running.
"He looked like he was asleep. And I started touching him and I said, 'Wake up, wake up. You're okay, wake up,'" said Mary. "That's when we walked around and saw the bullet holes and I knew, you know, that he wasn't alive any longer."
Dallas Homicide Detective Tommy Raley believes someone at Castillo's home that night waiting for him.
'"That just shows me that it's something personal, someone that knew him, someone he obviously made mad," said Raley.
But Mary says she doesn't know of anyone who fits that description.
"He didn't like drama. He didn't like problems. He tried to avoid it. So that's one of our main questions - why? Why? Why did this happen to him? Who hate him that much?" asks Mary.
Now the family says they're scared and confused.
"I want to know what they were thinking. They didn't realize that they took away a piece of my family away when they did it," said Jackie.
Crime Stoppers is also offering up to five thousand dollars, bringing the reward for a tip to $10,000 dollars.
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