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Garza did not see the man's handgun because the man's back was to the officer,
Gutierrez said. The man spun around and fired at Garza before he got to draw his gun,
she said.
After shooting Jessica Garcia, the assailant then ran after Luna, firing at him.
Luna had a gun and fired back, Gutierrez said. The assailant then returned inside the
house after running out of bullets and came out with an AK-47, eventually wounding
Luna in the leg.
After shooting Luna, the assailant then returned to the bedroom and shot Garza at least
once more in the chest with an AK-47.
A dispatcher had asked Garza when he arrived at the scene if he needed a backup
officer, and told her he would let her know. Dispatchers never heard from Garza again
and learned he had been shot when called by neighbors who heard gunshots about 10
minutes later, Gutierrez said.
The couple was arguing because Jessica Garcia was threatening to leave her husband.
Luna went to the house to help her move, Gutierrez said. They are related.
The Garcia's have two children, ages 1 and 5.
Previously, the last officer to die in the line of duty was 11-year veteran John Anthony
Riojas, 37. He was shot once in the forehead during a struggle with a man he had been
chasing on foot at an apartment complex on the city's northwest side on Feb. 2.
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Garcia also shot and wounded the uncle of his wife during the incident.
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Death penalty will be sought
Prosecutors are preparing to seek the death penalty against a San Antonio man accused
in the March double slaying of his wife and a veteran city police officer in a domestic
violence incident that stunned the city.
"I think it'll be safe to say we are filing written notice to the court," probably next week,
Assistant District Attorney Christopher De Martino said after a brief pretrial hearing for
Frank Garcia Jr., 28.
Prosecutors also announced that they probably will try Frank Garcia Jr. on 2 counts of
capital murder before they try his mother, Eustacia Garcia, for manslaughter in
connection with the death of Frank Garcia Jr.'s 21-year-old wife, Jessica.
The district attorney's office alleges that by alerting her son that his wife was leaving
him, Eustacia Garcia helped unleash a chain of events that culminated in Jessica's
slaying as well as that of officer Hector Garza, 48.
According to the indictment obtained in June, Eustacia Garcia knew of her son's violent
nature, knew he had inflicted it on his wife and knew there were firearms in the house
on South San Eduardo where three generations of the Garcias lived.