‘I want him to rot!’ Woman is shot and killed after husband flipped off driver on their way to work in Texas – as he reveals her chilling warning before the tragedy and pleads for gunman to be caught
- Zane Jones’s wife Paola Nunez Linares, 37, was shot near Fort Worth on Tuesday
- Police have not identified a suspect and the shooter remains at large
- Paola had recently moved to the U.S. from Honduras to be with Zane
A man whose wife was killed in a road rage tragedy has revealed her chilling warning before she died, as he pleads for the gunman to be arrested.
Zane Jones and his wife Paola Nunez Linares, 37, were driving to work near Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday when she was shot in the back of the head after he flipped off another driver for driving ‘aggressively.’
The grieving husband said that before the shooting, the couple had been behind someone who was driving slowly in the right lane, so they used the left lane to pass.
As they were passing lanes, another driver drove up to their Kia minivan’s bumper, Zane added. Once Zane transferred lanes, the other car nearly crashed into his mini van, getting close before backing away.
‘And I flipped them off,’ said Jones, adding that, ‘She [his wife] always told me not to flip people off because you never know.’
Zane Jones is pleading with the public for help in finding the driver who shot his wife Paola Nunez Linares dead after he flipped them off
Zane and the 37-year-old victim were driving to work near Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday when she was shot in the back of the head
The grieving husband said he believed the other driver was also flipping him off, but then realized they were holding a gun. The shooting happened on the 1400 block of West Hurst Blvd, pictured above
Zane said he believed the other person was also flipping him off, but then realized they were holding a gun.
The driver then slowed down and shot through the back left window of the minivan, hitting Paola in the back of the head. They then shot a second time with the bullet going through Zane’s headrest and windshield.
‘I need him caught, I need him prosecuted, I need him in prison. I need him to know he didn’t just fire a gun into a car, “the end,”‘ Jones told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.
‘He killed someone who’s not like anyone… I want him to rot.’
Zane said he did not realize Paola had been hit until he pulled into a gas station to call 911 and noticed she wasn’t ducking, but slumped and wounded.
Paola was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead that night.
Police have yet to identify a suspect, and the shooter’s car has only been described as a small, dark-colored older model car.
Paola had just moved to the U.S. from Guatemala to be with Zane
Paola had just moved to the U.S. from Guatemala to be with Zane, who shared that he had told his wife she would be safer in Texas than in her native country, where she had been robbed several times.
‘He killed someone who fought so hard to be here, who loved my kids, that loved me, someone who’s building a life and a career for herself,’ the emotional widower said.
‘Someone who had nothing to do with anything. Someone who was a passenger of the person he was mad at.’
The couple, who wed about a year and a half ago, met on a Facebook group for the band Switchfoot.
Paola has recently gotten her green card and worked with Zane at a paint manufacturing company.
Zane and police have asked that anyone with information on the shooting come forward and contact Detective C. Jackson at 817-788-7179.
A GoFundMe created to cover Paola’s family’s traveling expenses and funeral has collected $4,300 of its 10,000 goal.
