Two and half years after a daytime shootout under the iconic "I love Charlottesville" mural in the city's Belmont neighborhood left one man dead and his killer hailed as a wife-saving hero, federal authorities say two Texas men have pleaded guilty to the kidnapping that prompted the bloodshed.

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Ricardo Franco Ordaz, the 26-year-old ringleader of the human smuggling operation, pleaded guilty last month to one count of conspiracy to kidnap and one count of transporting an alien resulting in death. Jordan Joseph Perez, 21, pleaded guilty to the same charges this past Tuesday. Both men hail from the greater Austin area.

For their roles in the kidnapping, which began near the U.S. border with Mexico, and the subs

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