Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Bell County, TX: Second Victim Of Murder-Suicide Dies

BELL COUNTY (June 20, 2011)—Mary Gonzales Ybarra, 57, who was critically wounded in a shooting on June 13 that left her husband, Emilio Sonen Ybarra, Jr., 57, dead, has also died, authorities said Monday.

Bell County Justice of the Peace Don Engleking pronounced Mary Ybarra dead at 5:10 p.m. Sunday at Scott & White Hospital, to which she was flown after deputies, acting on a phone tip from a relative, found her with a gunshot wound to the head in a camper trailer at 663 S. P. Terry Rd. near Morgan's Point Resort.

Her husband was pronounced dead at the scene.

“All indications are this was a murder suicide,” the Bell County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release Monday.

Authorities, however, are not saying who shot whom.

On April 13, 2010, Emilio Ybarra, who was then a Temple Daily Telegram carrier was taken to Scott & White after he was shot in what police said was a domestic disturbance involving his wife.

Mary Ybarra, whom police identified at the time as his estranged wife, was arrested at the scene.

Officers found Emilio Ybarra in the parking lot of the World Martial Arts Academy at 711 S. 1st St. with a gunshot wound to the upper arm.

He drove there after his wife called him on his cell phone as he ran his regular delivery route, police said, and she was waiting in her vehicle when he arrived.

He was shot after walking up to her vehicle and speaking to her briefly, police said.

He disarmed her and then called 911, police said.

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