Texas woman shot to death after husband makes obscene gesture during road rage incident

Texas woman shot to death after husband makes obscene gesture during road rage incident

A 37-year-old woman was killed in a suspected road rage incident after shots were fired into her vehicle as her husband was driving, police say.

Paola Nunez Linares died at about 2 a.m. Tuesday at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth following the shooting, which occurred at about 9:18 p.m. Monday, according to a news release from police. No arrests have been made.

Linares’ husband, Zane Jones, tells police he was driving to work with his wife in their 2017 Kia minivan north on East Loop 820 when he attempted to pass a slow-moving vehicle, NBC 5 reports. When he moved to the left lane to pass, another vehicle came up behind him at high speed, Jones said.

“As I was passing that car, another car behind me sped up, going like 90 mph, and was like on my bumper,” Jones tells NBC 5. “So I completed the pass, moved over to the right lane and the other car sped up to me and almost like crashed into my car, got very close and then backed away. And I flipped them off.

“She [his wife] always told me not to flip people off because you never know.”

Police say several shots were fired into the minivan and that Linares was wounded in the head. Jones said he initially thought his wife was ducking from the bullets but when he pulled over he realized she had been wounded.

Linares recently had moved to Texas from Guatemala, Fox 4 reports.

“She’s been mugged five times at gunpoint in Guatemala and I sat here and assured her this is a much safer place to be, and that may be, but it wasn’t for her,” Jones tells Fox 4. “Thirty-five years she survived in Guatemala. Took her two years to get killed here, at no fault of her own.”