Crime & Safety
La Habra Couple in Apparent Murder-Suicide ID'd
Juan Gomez, 43, fatally shot his wife, Giselle Perez, 43, just before 8:30 a.m. Monday with a small-caliber handgun, police said.
LA HABRA, CA - Police on Wednesday released the identities of a man who shot his wife before turning the gun on himself in what investigators believe was a murder-suicide over the weekend.
Juan Gomez, 43, fatally shot his wife, 43-year-old Giselle Perez, just before 8:30 a.m. Monday with a small-caliber handgun before using it to kill himself, according to La Habra police Sgt. Jose Quirarte. The gun was registered to Gomez, the sergeant added.
Their teenage son called 911 to report the shooting, Quirarte said. The son said his mother had been shot and his father was still armed.
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Officers burst into the home in the 600 block of North Fonda Street to get the son and his younger sister out of the residence, Quirarte said.
Investigators suspect it was a murder-suicide, Quirarte said.
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The investigation is still officially active, he added. Investigators still have not determined what prompted the shooting, Quirarte said.
The two children were unhurt and were being cared for by other relatives.
Police did not previously have to respond to the home for other domestic disturbances, the sergeant said.
--City News Service, photo via Shutterstock
