A man fatally wounded his wife during a domestic dispute, then killed himself with a bullet to the head from the same rifle
Washington County Sheriff Glenwood Humphries said Jesus Garcia shot his wife, Judy McPhee Garcia, in the hall of the couple's home on the Shivwits Indian Reservation last Sunday night.A single bullet from a .22-caliber rifle struck her in the right shoulder and apparently ricocheted into her lungs, Humphries said.
"He shot her and then went in the bedroom and shot himself," he said.
Deputies were called to the home shortly before 11 p.m. by a daughter and son-in-law living in the basement administered to the woman until emergency medical technicians arrived. She was pronounced dead at Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George.
The sheriff said Judy Garcia was a tribal member while her husband, originally from Mexico, was not.