July 8, 2009- Santa Fe, NM-- Corey Pein and the Santa Fe Reporter did a good job in telling this horrible story of a predictable event that shocked New Mexico.
Detective Trujillo thinks it happened like this.
It was a Friday night, May 22. Reno—in uniform, with Mace and pistol—was beginning the graveyard shift.
He and Sarah were arguing over the phone again. In her room, Julie Lovato could hear them through the walls.
Minutes after getting off the phone, Sarah went to Julie’s bedroom. Soon the sisters heard Reno barge in. They heard Bennie Sr. yell, “You just don’t walk in here like that!”
Reno refused to leave. Julie followed Sarah into the hall.
“What the hell,” Reno shouted, “What are you going to do about it?”
Julie fled to her brother’s place nearby, hoping he could help. Running down the stairs, she heard Sarah’s voice for the last time: “Please Reno, no.”
Then she heard a shot. Moments later, more shots. People were finally calling 911. Bennie Jr., who once pulled a knife on his family, grabbed a baseball bat and ran to save his father and sister.
Reno was gone. The room smelled of Mace. Bennie Sr. lay dead in the living room, pregnant Sarah lay dead in the kitchen.
“We think the fetus was targeted specifically,” Trujillo says.
She was 17, he was 36 weeks in the womb.
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Posted by: Walter D. Roberts | July 09, 2009 at 10:02 AM