Juan Carlos Mata killed Lesley Reyes, then self days later – A 20-year-old Texas man, sought in the ambush slaying of his girlfriend after she broke up with him, killed himself at the location where he allegedly killed her days earlier, in front of an officer arriving on a call of a suspicious male seen near her makeshift memorial.
Juan Carlos Mata, 20, took his own life with a shotgun as police arrived early Thursday morning at a Pasadena apartment complex outside Houston, police said in a news conference. The location was where Mata waited for Lesley Reyes to get home from work before midnight Monday when he shot and killed her, authorities said.
Juan Carlos Mata is accused of killing Lesley Reyes before killing himself. (Screenshots from ABC13 Houston)Juan Carlos Mata killed Lesley Reyes, then self days later
The suicide ended the search for the suspect, but police said there is some more investigation that needs to be done, including confirming whether the weapon was the same one used in Reyes’ killing.
“It doesn’t certainly make it any easier for any of the families involved,” Pasadena Police Sgt. Raul Granados said in the news conference. “It makes it safer for our community because we know there’s not a subject out there with a weapon.”
