Texas teen, 15, kills ex-girlfriends mom, siblings in cowardly act of violence: police
An unhinged Texas teen is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend’s mother and her two younger siblings in what police described as a targeted “cowardly act of violence.”Jennifer Rodriguez, 39, was found dead inside her luxury Odessa, Texas, apartment alongside her 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son after the unidentified teen unleashed his massacre on Tuesday evening, according to Odessa Police.Officers responded to reports of a shooting at the Eighty Seventh Apartments — a luxury complex 350 miles west of Dallas — to discover the gruesome scene around 5:45 p.m.The suspected shooter, who was not identified because of his age, had a previous relationship with Rodriguez’s 15-year-old daughter and had planned to shoot her outside of school before changing his mind and going to the apartment instead, police revealed.The teen girl was not physically wounded in the triple slaying.Police did not say if the girl was home at the time of the shootings.
“She is OK, she wasn’t injured … I’m sure after all this happened to her family, she’s not OK.But physically she was unharmed,” Odessa Police Chief Mike Gerke said at a press conference Wednesday.The 15-year-old boy ran away from the scene and was captured about 40 minutes after the shooting, police said.“From the time that it happened, we knew almost immediately who the suspect was and then to locate him he was detained within 40 minutes,” Gerke said.He has been charged with capital murder of multiple persons, a capital felony, and is being held at the Ector County Youth Center.
Officials haven’t released a motive for the killings.A handgun, believed to have been used in the shooting, was recovered and officials are waiting for the investigation to conclude that it was the firearm used in the murders.Gerke described the shooting as a “targeted” attack with no gang affiliation.The heartbroken father of the children mourned the deaths of his children and ex-wife, saying that he didn’t “...