User:Asiaticus/sandbox/Jesus Valenzuela

Jesus Valenzuela, a Sonoran, born in Pueblo de Murrieta, was a brother of Joaquin Valenzuela, under the alias of "Joaquin Ocomorenia" one of the named Five Joaquins of the Five Joaquins Gang, and a cousin of Joaquin Murrieta. Jesus Valenzuela was believed to have been a member of one of the bands of that gang led by Tres Dedos. Following the breakup of that gang after the Battle of the Cantua, he became a companion of Jack Powers who he called his "patrón". He was accused by the San Luis Obispo Vigilance Committee of being a participant with Pio Linares and six others in the Rancho San Juan Capistrano Murders. Never found by a vigilante posse he was believed by them to have successfully fled, probably back to Sonora. Later research by Frank Forrest Latta, revealed that the vigilantes may have executed him under the mistaken belief that he was his brother Joaquin Valenzuela, one of the first men to be hanged in Mission Plaza by the San Luis Obispo Committee of Vigilance in 1858.