Family files federal civil rights lawsuit two years after U.S. Marshals task force fatally shoots man in Round Rock

More than two years after a 36-year-old man was shot 10 times during an operation involving a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force outside a Round Rock McDonald’s, his family is seeking answers in federal court, raising questions about why authorities abandoned an earlier plan to arrest him peacefully, why his arrest warrants were temporarily removed from law enforcement databases and what happened in the moments before officers opened fire. Alfonso Miguel Chapa, known to friends and family as “Chop,” was killed Nov. 1, 2024, outside the McDonald’s at 1850 E. Palm Valley Blvd. The Travis County medical examiner classified his death as a homicide, a medical determination that does not establish whether the shooting was legally justified. On Oct. 30, 2026, Chapa’s parents and daughter filed what the family describes as a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division.

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