SAN ANTONIO -- Just six days before her daughter Misty Espinoza, 25, was shot to death, her husband of just two weeks told Ida Espinoza he suspected his wife was having an affair.
"He said, 'I think that Misty is having an affair,'" Espinoza testified that Alonso Mendoza, 33, told her.
Her testimony came as Mendoza's trial moved into it's second week on Wednesday
Mendoza is accused of killing his wife and her co-worker, Clarence Blades, 40, after confronting the couple in the Dollar General Store at 11400 Perrin Beitel, where the pair worked.
Following the shooting on July 1, 2009, Mendoza fled to the Dallas-area suburb of Lancaster, where he surrendered, following a several-hour-long standoff with police.
During that standoff, Misty Espinoza's aunt, Jo Ann McDonald, testified that Mendoza placed a call to Ida Espinoza, who was at her dying daughter's bedside in the hospital.
"He started saying, 'Well, I was going to kill myself.' And then all of a sudden, he started talking about how he was surrounded by cops," McDonald told the jury.
Testimony will continue on Thursday in Judge Juanita Vasquez-Gardner's 399th District Court.
If he is found guilty of capital murder, Mendoza will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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