Eliseo Hernandez Moreno (September 27, 1959 – March 4, 1987) was an American spree killer who killed six people in the Houston region of Texas on October 11, 1983.
Moreno shot and killed his wife, brother-in-law, a Texas Highway Patrol trooper, and three strangers before he was arrested.
[1] On October 11, 1983, Moreno was out searching for his estranged wife, Esther Garza, when he killed her and his brother-in-law, Juan Garza, in College Station before killing Texas Highway Patrol trooper Russell Boyd north of Hempstead.
Officers at a Wharton County roadblock arrested Moreno while he was driving towards the Rio Grande Valley with another hostage.
On March 4, 1987, after only three years on death row, Moreno was executed at the Huntsville Unit via lethal injection.