Adam
08-05-02, 11:54 AM
Five dead in Dallas shooting
August 06, 2002
FIVE people, including a woman and her two young children, were shot and killed and another was wounded in what is being called one of the worst episodes of family violence Dallas has ever seen, authorities said.
A man was arrested and was being questioned about the deaths of his 32-year-old wife, Cecelia Ochoa; his two daughters, Crystal Ochoa, seven, and Ana Ochoa, nine months; his father-in-law Bartolo Alivizo, 56, and a 20-year-old woman, Jacqueline Saleh.
The woman who was wounded ran from the house bleeding and screaming yesterday and alerted neighbours.
Police found bodies in the kitchen and living room of the one-storey home about 6km from downtown Dallas.
"This is the worst that I've ever seen, and I've been in homicide 10 years," police homicide Sergeant Gary Kirkpatrick said. "There's never been one of this magnitude."
Neighbours had heard what sounded like "a string of fireworks going off" in the house.
After the gunshots, neighbours saw the 29-year-old man speed away in the family's silver-coloured sport utility vehicle. He and the car were spotted at a shopping centre about a block away after police arrived at the residence.
A semi-automatic handgun was recovered at the house, Kirkpatrick said.
Four of the five victims died at the scene; the youngest girl died at a hospital.
Kirkpatrick said a brother of the suspect told police the family had domestic problems.
The woman who survived the attack was shot in the upper body and was in critical condition, Kirkpatrick said. Kathleen Beathard, public relations director for Methodist Hospitals of Dallas, said the gunshot damaged a major artery.
The shootings shocked neighbours.
"He was a very cordial person," neighbour Delia McClendon said of the man taken into custody.
"He was out just yesterday painting his house. He and my mum stood out there talking and a couple of weeks ago our car was stolen and he came over to see if there was anything he could do to help."
The Associated Press
Source. (http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4848596%255E1702,00.html)
August 06, 2002
FIVE people, including a woman and her two young children, were shot and killed and another was wounded in what is being called one of the worst episodes of family violence Dallas has ever seen, authorities said.
A man was arrested and was being questioned about the deaths of his 32-year-old wife, Cecelia Ochoa; his two daughters, Crystal Ochoa, seven, and Ana Ochoa, nine months; his father-in-law Bartolo Alivizo, 56, and a 20-year-old woman, Jacqueline Saleh.
The woman who was wounded ran from the house bleeding and screaming yesterday and alerted neighbours.
Police found bodies in the kitchen and living room of the one-storey home about 6km from downtown Dallas.
"This is the worst that I've ever seen, and I've been in homicide 10 years," police homicide Sergeant Gary Kirkpatrick said. "There's never been one of this magnitude."
Neighbours had heard what sounded like "a string of fireworks going off" in the house.
After the gunshots, neighbours saw the 29-year-old man speed away in the family's silver-coloured sport utility vehicle. He and the car were spotted at a shopping centre about a block away after police arrived at the residence.
A semi-automatic handgun was recovered at the house, Kirkpatrick said.
Four of the five victims died at the scene; the youngest girl died at a hospital.
Kirkpatrick said a brother of the suspect told police the family had domestic problems.
The woman who survived the attack was shot in the upper body and was in critical condition, Kirkpatrick said. Kathleen Beathard, public relations director for Methodist Hospitals of Dallas, said the gunshot damaged a major artery.
The shootings shocked neighbours.
"He was a very cordial person," neighbour Delia McClendon said of the man taken into custody.
"He was out just yesterday painting his house. He and my mum stood out there talking and a couple of weeks ago our car was stolen and he came over to see if there was anything he could do to help."
The Associated Press
Source. (http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4848596%255E1702,00.html)