EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An El Paso woman pleaded guilty to murdering her husband and received a 20-year prison sentence, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Court records show Martinez pleaded guilty May 13. <\/p>\n
In December 2023, Luz Elena Martinez reportedly told police she shot her husband, Jose Luis Avalos Reyes after he attacked her. <\/p>\n
Crimes Against Persons detectives interviewed Martinez after and found “inconsistencies” in evidence.<\/p>\n
It happened on a House on French Place off Delta Drive in South-Central El Paso. According to documents ABC-7 obtained, Martinez called 911 to report herself for shooting her husband. <\/p>\n
Police met with Martinez, who sat inside a van parked in front of the house, and three witnesses, documents said.<\/p>\n
Inside, police found him dead at the house with a pistol on a nightstand next to the bed where he was laying. <\/p>\n
Officers also found a knife in his non-dominant hand, according to documents. <\/p>\n
Martinez told officer she was sexually assaulted and requested a lawyer, documents said. She also reportedly told the witnesses she shot her husband. She also called one of the witnesses before calling 911 to report herself.<\/p>\n
Documents said a sexual assault nurse examined Martinez, who told the nurse her husband came at her with a knife, so she shot him.<\/p>\n
Investigators found out Martinez’ husband had an affair. Martinez hired a private investigator to follow him and hired a lawyer for divorce, documents said. <\/p>\n
Evidence from the murder scene suggested her husband was laying on the bed and Martinez shot him at a close distance, documents said. <\/p>\n
Documents said the evidence contradicts what Martinez told the nurse because she alleged he stood up with the knife.<\/p>\n
In March 2024, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested Martinez at the 5700 block of Alameda Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An El Paso woman pleaded guilty to murdering her husband and received a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-303292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}