FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is looking for a man accused of shooting and killing his pregnant wife, both with ties to the Central Valley.
Deputies say 36-year-old Octavio Curiel-Martinez is wanted for the murder of 37-year-old Anna Maria Nunez, in what investigators believe was an act of domestic violence.
Both Curiel-Martinez and the victim have family in Tulare County.
It happened Wednesday, August 28th, just before 9:00 p.m. in El Monte.
Deputies got to the scene, and found Nunez suffering from at least one gunshot wound.
She was a mother of four kids, and was five months pregnant with a boy.
Nunez was taken to a hospital where both she and the baby were pronounced dead.
He was armed with a handgun and last seen running from the house.
Deputies do not believe the other children were at the house at the time of the shooting.
Suspect Description:
Curiel-Martinez is 5’7”, with brown hair, brown eyes and he frequents the area of El Monte.
He was last seen driving a 2018 Red Toyota Tacoma with a chrome utility box in the bed, CA License 81718L2.
Deputies consider Curiel-Martinez “armed and dangerous.”
Anyone with information – contact the LA County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500 or call “Crime Stoppers” (800) 222-TIPS (8477).
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