A Texas woman is facing charges for her husband’s death, per Law & Crime. Marisol Solis Zamora, 42, reportedly said that the gun went off by accident when her husband, Miguel Zamora Martinez, 47, bumped into her while she was helping him inside their home after a night of drinking. She is charged with murder.
The shooting occurred on Saturday night around 11 p.m. in Houston. Their children, who were home at the time of the incident, heard two gunshots and saw her holding the firearm near the body, as stated in court documents.
When police arrived, they found him dead in the driveway. Initially, she claimed it was self-defense but later said it was an accident during her hearing, as reported by Damali Keith from local Fox station KRIV. At the hearing, Zamora’s court-appointed defense attorney stated that she was assisting her husband who was
“drunkenly trying to stumble from the car to the home, and that the gun accidentally discharged … as he bumped against her.”
“The possibility of this being an accident is also buttressed by one of the teenage kids who indicated that the weapon was sort of jammed, or there appeared to be some kind of malfunction with the weapon itself,”
the lawyer added. Marisol and her children told the police that there was no argument between her and her husband before the gun went off, her lawyer explained.
However, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office stated in a news release that her explanation of how her husband suffered his injuries
“did not align with the physical evidence at the scene.”
Zamora doesn’t have a criminal record and was on the path to start training to become a paralegal, her lawyer mentioned in court. Marisol Zamora is currently in Harris County Jail, and her bail is set at $100,000, according to online records.
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