Paola Nunez Linares shot dead in Hurst road rage shooting incident after husband flips off aggressive driver. No arrests.
She had immigrated in search of a better life after falling in love with the man of her dreams
A Texas woman was fatally shot in the head in a road-rage incident Monday night as she riding to work with her husband in a Forth Worth neighborhood.
Paola Nunez Linares, 37, and her husband were driving in Hurst, a city between Fort Worth and Dallas, just on 9.15pm when she was shot, Hurst police said in a release.
‘I need him caught, I need him prosecuted, I need him in prison’
Linares who had emigrated from Guatemala was struck in the head, and rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
Zane Jones, her husband, told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth he was behind the wheel when he flipped off a car that was driving aggressively and trying to push off his car off the road. The gunman fired at the couple’s minivan, leading to the man’s wife being shot in the back of the head.
‘I looked over at him when I did it, and I thought he was flipping me off too. But it turns out he was holding the gun,’ Jones told Fox 4 News.
‘He slowed down until we were about like that, and he shot through my back left window and hit my wife in the back of the head.’
The other driver, who police say was in a small, dark, older-looking car, fired at least three times into their minivan, Jones said.
‘I need him caught, I need him prosecuted, I need him in prison. I need him to know he didn’t just fire a gun into a car, ‘the end,’’ Jones told NBC. ‘He killed someone who’s not like anyone.’
No arrests
Nunez Linares, who was originally from Guatemala, moved to the US to marry Jones last year.
‘She was truly happy. Truly, truly happy living here. But it came to an end, unfortunately,’ her mother, Ana Linares, told FOX4.
Jones said he wants his wife to be remembered as someone who was full of love.
‘She’s the most innocent victim,’ Jones told FOX4. ‘She’s not just some woman who got killed on the highway. She’s exceptional. She’s exceptional in every way.’
The advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, which calls for stricter laws around firearms, said in May that road-rage injuries and deaths from guns have increased every year since 2018.
There were at least 141 road rage shooting deaths last year, it said, citing numbers from the Gun Violence Archive database.
Police are still searching for the person responsible for the shooting.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Hurst Police Department.
