The video shows deputies and paramedics working to save Casarez. The woman and child escaped, and Casarez drove to a highway where a sheriff's deputy saw him, Youngblood said.Īs the deputy closed in, yelling at Casarez to drop his gun, Casarez fatally shot himself in the stomach, according to graphic body camera footage released by police on Facebook. "She may have tried to intervene to keep the suspect from approaching her father, and he shot and killed both of them," Youngblood said.Īfter the shooting at the Garcia home, Casarez carjacked a woman driving with her child. Casarez fatally shot Garcia and his daughter, 31-year-old Laura Garcia. He shot his ex-wife and then turned the gun on a second man, 50-year-old Antonio Valadez, the sheriff's department said.Ĭasarez fired at Valadez as he ran away, but then tracked him down in his car and killed him, the sheriff said.Ĭasarez then drove to the house of 57-year-old Eliseo Garcia Cazares, who Youngblood identified as a friend. Investigators are looking into whether Casarez's ex-wife may have had relationships with Contreras or Valadez, the sheriff said.Ĭasarez likely took his ex-wife to the trucking company against her will and then fatally shot 50-year-old Manuel Contreras with a. "There's a reason for that and we need to find that reason." "It appears to be there's more than just husband and wife having a fight because other people were targeted," he said. Youngblood said it appears that Casarez targeted every victim, starting with a worker at T&T Trucking, and that domestic violence appears to have played a large part.
The judge denied the request.īolanos recently filed for a change involving child support and custody over the couple's two teenage children, and the pair had a hearing set for Oct. In his petition for divorce filed in December, Cesarez accused Bolanos of cheating and asked the judge for his wife's text messages to specific phone numbers.
Javier Casarez fatally shot himself as a deputy closed in on him after the killings in Bakersfield, about 90 miles (145 kilometres) north of Los Angeles, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said Thursday.Ĭasarez, 54, shot his ex-wife and a man at a trucking company before chasing after another man, killing him, and then driving to a home where he shot dead a father and daughter on Wednesday.Ĭourt records show a divorce between Casarez and Petra Maribel Bolanos de Casarez was finalized earlier this year. LOS ANGELES - Detectives on Friday are investigating a possible domestic violence motive after a gunman shot and killed his ex-wife before killing himself during a nearly 40-minute rampage in Southern California, authorities said.
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