Moultrie, GA: Dating refusal was trigger

Alan Mauldin
February 02, 2010 10:13 pm

— MOULTRIE — A Tifton woman’s refusal of a relationship with a coworker apparently sparked a deadly revenge that left both her and the gunman dead Monday at Universal Forest Products in Moultrie.
Law enforcement officials are awaiting results of an autopsy performed Tuesday morning, but believe the deaths were a murder-suicide.
Cesar Augusta Ardiano Larios, 29, of Norman Park, and Leticia Duran Carbajal, 38, had talked a short time before the shootings shortly before 3 p.m., Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Hal Suber said.
Larios worked in a different part of the sprawling Industrial Drive facility that manufactures wood and wood-alternative products.
“She walked outside and he was out there waiting on her,” Suber said. “It happened outside under a shelter.
“We don’t know (why) yet. The way it’s looking now, he wanted to date her and she didn’t want to date him.”
A .22-caliber revolver pistol was recovered at the scene of the shootings, which occurred in a shipping area at the facility.
Suber said autopsies will indicate how many times Carbajal and Larios were shot. It also will determine whether reports of Carbajal being pregnant are true.
“Some people tell us that she was, some people said she wasn’t,” Suber said.
Investigators are not saying definitely the slayings were a murder-suicide, “but that’s what it looks like at this point,” he said.
A sheriff’s office report written by the officer who was the first to arrive at Universal Forest Products said that he found a man and woman on the ground, and that a gun was in the man’s hand.