FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — New details are emerging from a shooting in Fayetteville that left a woman dead Monday.
“I don’t have any tears anymore. I haven’t eaten all day. It’s just really, really hard,” said Cristofer Puente-Mendoza, the husband of the victim, Jylin Matute-Ayala.
Puente-Mendoza told ABC11 of how he’s struggling with grief. While he was in Durham, she texted him Monday morning as she was leaving their home on Walden Drive to drive to work.
“And then, she, all she said was, ‘I love you, in Spanish. And I said, OK, and then, I love you, too. And then after that, I get no calls, no, nothing.”
Only minutes later, police were called to a shooting on Topeka Street. That’s where they found Matute-Ayala shot dead in the street. Investigators said the assailant had also initially driven off with her car but then left the car nearby.
“I really can’t, you know, point any fingers at anybody because she really didn’t …