Two Houston-area murder cases involving women and their current or former domestic partners have come into the spotlight just as domestic violence awareness month begins. Both women had made reports alleging abuse before their deaths.
has made national headlines after she was allegedly murdered by her husband, who police say also took his own life. Both women had made reports alleging abuse before their deaths.. In Texas, the year 2020 saw a 23-percent increase in the number of women and men – 228 in total – killed by intimate partners, according to research by the Texas Council on Family Violence, a nonprofit coalition that combats family violence.
For the past two years, Gutierrez had been having an on-and-off-again relationship with Daniel Chacon, 30, according to Pasadena Police Department Chief Josh Bruegger. Her death took place following a series of alleged abuses. During the two weeks in September that Gutierrez was staying with Chacon, she reported being assaulted by the father of her child on two separate occasions, Bruegger said.
was in the process of making a domestic violence complaint against her husband to military investigatorsInvestigators said the husband, who was a military recruiter, exchanged fire with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents who were conducting the interview. One of the agents was injured and taken to the hospital. The shooter then fled across the county before constable deputies in northwest Harris County caught and killed him.
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