Her name was María and she was “from a very good family, from here forever,” some neighbors remember. Her husband killed her yesterday morning, according to the first investigations by the Civil Guard two precise shots: one on the head and one on the chest.
After ending his life, Alberto, named after his partner and alleged murderer, committed suicide. He used the the same shotgun he used to murder his wife, also leaving their two children, one aged 17 and the other aged 11, orphans.
“She was a good woman, we are shocked,” a neighbor who runs a local business told EL ESPAÑOL. “They were both customers, we have known them for years and we would never have imagined this,” he adds.
In the neighborhood, they knew who they were. One of the many modest families who work in the city’s two main businesses: the countryside and Christmas sweets.
Marie was 46 years old. For years he had worked in a gunpowder factory, one of many in Estepa. The confectionery sector It is one of the main employment centers in the region.
49 years old
Albert, The husband and alleged murderer was 49 years old.. He devoted himself to the field. A person who had known him for years points out that “he worked for someone else, he had no land”. Hunter, he points out, owned a hunting rifle.
In one of the bars near the house where the Civil Guard found the bodies of the two neighbors, a the hotelier remembers the wedding. “It’s a surprise, we’ve never seen anything strange,” he says.
They frequented his business and “never”, he remembers, did he witness any episode of violence. “She comes from a very good family“It’s a surprise,” he adds.
Almost everyone María and Antonio meet ends up talking about the children. The oldest is 17 and the youngest is 11. It was precisely the youngest who warned yesterday morning of what had happened.
An 11 year old boy
According to investigation sources, the boy called his uncle and told him that his father had killed his mother and then committed suicide. The man notified the police. and the matter ended up in the hands of the Civil Guard, which is trying to clarify all the details.
According to the mayor of the municipality, Antonio Jesús Muñoz, the family was one of many people who live in Estepa. “Humble and hardworking”underlined the first mayor, that it is not explained how this event could have occurred.
Estepa’s advisor adds that the family has never caused problems or been the protagonist of controversies. They had no help nor were there any complaints of mistreatment.
Viogene
This point is confirmed by the Government Delegation, which explained that María was not part of the Viogen service for the protection of victims of gender-based violence.
“I’ve known him for a long, long time,” a neighbor explains about Alberto. “AND “I never expected this” duck. Surprise and sadness currently reign in the neighborhood where María lived with her children and her alleged murderer.
While the Civil Guard develop your researchthe municipality decrees three days of official mourning this Sunday to make visible the support and pain of the municipality for the event.
