Vehicle burglary gone bad led to deadly shooting of Infowars employee, affidavit says

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- A vehicle burglary gone bad is what led to the deadly shooting of an Infowars employee in March. The Austin Police Department arrested one of four suspects connected to the shooting last month, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

That man was identified as 17-year-old Eloy Adrian Camarillo, according to the affidavit. He was booked into the Travis County Jail on May 1 on a charge of capital murder by terror threat/other felony on a $250,000 bond, court records state.

KXAN has reached out to Camarillo's attorney. This article will be updated if a statement is received.

Shortly before midnight on March 9, APD, Austin-Travis County EMS and the Austin Fire Department responded to an apartment complex in the 2300 block of Douglas Street. That's near East Oltorf Street and Interstate 35.

When officers arrived on the scene, they found 36-year-old Jamie White with a gunshot wound to the neck. He was pronounced dead at 12:19 a.m. on March 10, according to the affidavit. White was an Infowars employee, law enforcement sources previously told KXAN's Brianna Hollis.

According to investigators, White was attempting to stop four suspects from burglarizing his vehicle at the complex -- a green Kia Soul. One of those four suspects was identified as Camarillo, who police said was a "co-conspirator" in the deadly shooting, court records said.

According to the affidavit, the suspects were approaching "Kia-brand vehicles" before successfully breaking into the green Kia Soul.

APD said in court records it "knows that car thieves frequently target Kia vehicles due to manufacturing defects that make them easy targets to auto theft."

Overall, the suspects allegedly also stole a black and silver Kia Soul from March 9-March 11. Witnesses told police the black Kia Soul was seen pulling up to the green Kia Soul before the deadly shooting happened.

Surveillance footage at the complex captured the black Kia Soul leaving the complex northbound on Douglas Street toward Oltorf Street. It was later found abandoned in the area of 5100 Sara Drive in east Austin, according to the affidavit.

The black Kia Soul was reported as stolen by the owner on March 10 from an apartment complex in Kyle. Police obtained surveillance footage from the owner of the black Kia Soul that showed a man wearing a black mask traveling in the silver Kia Soul at the apartment complex. That same man was seen attempting to break into two vehicles before "successfully stealing the black Kia Soul," court records said.

A detective with APD found a silver Kia Soul that was stolen on March 9 from the 5000 block of Delores Avenue in east Austin. It was abandoned blocking traffic in the 12000 block of South Interstate 35 in southeast Travis County, according to the affidavit.

Investigators obtained search warrants for cellphone tower data near the areas where the two stolen Kia Souls were seen, either on surveillance footage in the area or by witnesses who contacted police. One cellphone number that was at all the locations and times where the suspects and suspect vehicles were led them to Camarillo, court records said.

Camarillo was arrested by APD investigators on April 30. He told investigators he and the other suspects broke the window to White's green Kia Soul "with the purpose of joyriding." He said White confronted one of the suspects inside the vehicle. That is when White was shot, and then Eloy and the other suspects fled the area in the black Kia Soul, according to the affidavit.

No other details were available Tuesday.