Dallas police have arrested the owner of a West Oak Cliff bar in connection with a November shooting, and this time, they believe they have the right guy.

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Bernadino Delgado Jr., 47, faces a murder charge in the shooting death of Xavier Ramon Hernandez-Hankins, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

Delgado was arraigned on Wednesday and is being held in the Dallas County jail on a $300,000 bond.

In the early hours of Nov. 5, police responded to a shooting call in the 4300 block of West Illinois Avenue. Hernandez-Hankins was found suffering from a gunshot wound to his head, and died from the injury after being transported to a local hospital.

According to a police affidavit, Delgado, who owns Player’s Bar on W Illinois Avenue, was tied to the murder after police matched his truck to an eyewitness description and tracked Delgado’s phone records to the crime scene.

The affidavit says Delgado sold his truck only four weeks after the murder.

But while the affidavit details why police believe Delgado committed the crime, he is the third person to be arrested in connection with it.

An Oak Cliff couple who drove a similar truck to Delgado’s and were in Player’s Bar the night of the murder were arrested and charged with the murder in December 2022.

Rubi Esparza and her husband, Badilio Tovar, were in Player’s Bar with Hernandez-Hankins the night he was murdered, but he left after becoming upset, an affidavit says.

Esparza and Tovar were tied to the crime after their truck and phone records matched the witness description and location of the crime, but police did not interview either Esparza or Tovar prior to their arrest.

After their arrest, police realized several details, such as the description of the shooter’s truck and the truck Esparza and Tovar drove, did not match.

The couple was booked into the Dallas County jail on Dec. 19, and were released on Dec. 29 and Dec. 30.

In a statement released by Dallas police, the arrest was called a “mistake.”

“Upon further investigation, it was determined they did not commit the crime,” the statement said.

In the affidavit for Delgado’s arrest, police say Delgado has a violent history and has been charged with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon multiple times, as well as Unlawful Carrying of a Weapon, Assault, Resisting Arrest and Violating a Protective Order.