30 beers, a cockfight, a gun: The untold story of the man who tried to kill Chalino Sanchez

Edward Alvarado Gallegos cast his mind back three decades, to the night in 1992 that he tried to kill a legend. At his first hearing in 2012, Gallegos said he merely wanted to hand Chalino his gun so he could fire it onstage as he sang, “just like they do in Mexico.” “But what happened was that the singer got scared,” he said, “and I didn’t know that he had a gun also.” Gallegos claimed he and Chalino began shooting at the same time. “I feel bad for what I did,” Gallegos told the board in 2012, “but you can’t fix anything by feeling like that.” Five years later and again in 2022, Gallegos told a different story. “That’s ridiculous, senseless, violent, and I don’t think we’re getting at the exact motive here.” Noting that Chalino was murdered four months later, Commissioner William Muniz asked Gallegos if he went to Plaza Los Arcos intending to kill him. “No, I didn’t even know who he was,” Gallegos said, contradicting his earlier statement that he knew of Chalino but had never seen him perform.