Stephanie Ruiz was shot to death by her boyfriend Jesús Núñez (PHOTOS)

• Stephanie Ruiz was shot to death by her boyfriend Jesús Núñez.
• The Hispanic man allegedly acted out of anger from jealousy, alcohol and cocaine.
• Stephanie had four children with Jesús Núñez

Stephanie Ruiz was killed by her boyfriend Jesús Núñez in a violent outburst of jealousy, as he killed a friend of the woman and then committed suicide. The tragedy was investigated by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO), in Florida, in a case that was classified as a domestic violence homicide suicide.

According to various witnesses who spoke with agents of the PCSO’s Homicide Division when Stephanie Ruiz, 38, was murdered by her boyfriend Jesús Núñez, the woman’s four children were in the house where the events took place. There were also three other minors in the home, although it is not specified whose children they are.

Stephanie Ruiz, a new tragedy for domestic violence

On Sunday, June 6, 2021, at 4:30 a.m., a person called the PCSO emergency number to report a shooting that had awakened residents of Divot Lane Street in the town of Poinciana, Florida, to southwest of the metropolitan area of Kissimmee in the center of the peninsula. It is not specified who made the call.

Divot Lane is a ‘Cul de Sac’, a closed street, with few houses and almost on the corner with Country Club Road. The case report, consulted by MundoHispánico, does not detail the exact address in which the tragic events that ended the life of Stephanie Ruiz at the hands of her boyfriend took place.

Police find a dead man outside his home

When the first PCSO patrolmen arrived at the house where the shooting was reported, they found a Hispanic man on the lawn in front of the house who, according to the first investigations, had killed himself by shooting himself in front of the house and the gun was next to his body. On the head he had a gunshot wound to the head.

The witnesses who received the patrols told the authorities that the dead man in front of the house was Jesús Núñez, 34, who had been drinking alcohol and consuming cocaine since the afternoon of Saturday, June 5, 2021 in front of several people. It is not detailed in the investigation why the people were gathered in the same house.

Stephanie Ruiz and Yunieki Luis died inside the house

When the first witnesses spoke with the PCSO patrollers about the incident, the agents called the agents of the Corporation’s Homicide Division, since inside the house there were two other corpses, which Jesús Núñez had killed before committing suicide.

The names of the witnesses who spoke to the authorities and their relationship to the victims and the murderer were not made available for public consultation. Detectives from the PCSO Homicide Division found Stephanie Ruiz and Yunieki Luis, 36, both shot to death inside the home.

Stephanie Ruiz and Jesús Núñez had four children together

In the investigation, the agents of the Homicide Division discovered that when the shooting had begun in the early morning, seven minors and an adult who urgently guided them out of the house ran out of the house to save themselves. were wounded in the mess starring Núñez against Stephanie Ruiz and Yunieki Luis.

According to the details obtained by the agents of the PCSO’s Homicide Division, Stephanie Ruiz and Jesús Núñez had a 14-year relationship, although they were not married, and at that time they had four children together. However, the shadow of Núñez’s obsessive jealousy against Ruiz was always a black cloud in their relationship.

Jesús Núñez consumed alcohol and cocaine excessively

At one point in the night, after consuming alcohol and cocaine, Jesús Núñez became very violent, erratic and controlling against his wife Stephanie Ruiz. The anger caused by jealousy was on the rise throughout the night, until at one point she reached a point of total paranoia about what Stephanie Ruiz was doing and her friendship with Yunieki Luis.

Since Saturday afternoon, several people had arrived at the home of Ruiz and Núñez and witnessed the excessive consumption of alcohol and drugs by the man. At dawn, a woman who was in the house woke up alerted by the noise of several gunshots.

Stephanie Ruiz was hiding in her room full of fear

The woman left the room where she slept and saw how an angry Jesús Núñez pointed a gun at a surprised Yunieki Luis and then fired several shots in the living room of the house. Then, the woman took the children who were at home and ran with them down the street, to escape the bullets and call the authorities.

During the investigation, the agents of the PCSO Homicide Division discovered that Jesús Núñez broke the door of the main room in which his wife, Stephanie Ruiz, was sheltered, sheltered from the man’s jealous racket. The woman was the first to be killed by the man’s gunshots.

Who will take care of Stephanie Ruiz’s children?

Later, Jesús Núñez came out, who pointed the gun at his head and released the fatal bullet with which he blinded his life after killing his wife Stephanie Ruiz and his friend Yunieki Luis. The PCSO did not disclose, at the request of MundoHispánico, who will be in charge of the couple’s four children now that they have been orphaned.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd arrived at the scene of the crime to coordinate the investigations and explained at a news conference that when “excess alcohol, drugs and an explosive jealous character mix, a homicide can occur. Plus, after this, seven kids can never be the same again, ”Judd said.

«It should never have happened»

Sheriff Judd assured that the level of the tragedy in which Stephanie Ruiz and Yunieki Luis died at the hands of Jesús Núñez “should never have happened” and asked that the community now pray for the families of those who have died today, especially for the four little ones who have been orphaned. The ages of the couple’s children were not released by the PCSO.

According to the nonprofit organization National Statistics on Domestic Violence (NCADV), the United States is experiencing a true pandemic of aggression, at various levels, against someone by their partner. Every minute, according to NCADV, 20 people are attacked by their partner, including murder.

The pandemic of domestic violence

In the United States, one in four women and one in nine men are constantly subjected to violent abuse, causing them physical injury, emotion, trauma and anguish for the rest of their lives and even homicide. Women between 18 and 24 years old, almost always in their first serious relationship, are the most vulnerable and those who report the most cases.

The death of Stephanie Ruiz allegedly at the hands of her ex-partner is within the national context of domestic violence cases. According to the non-profit organization National Domestic Violence Hotline, one in four women in the United States suffers from an abusive relationship with her partner.

Women can get help if they are abused

According to that same organization, every minute an average of 24 people, men and women, suffer some type of violence, rape, harassment and intimidation by their partners. That makes a total of 12 million people a year being victims of domestic violence, as happened to the Hispanic Stephanie Ruiz.

The National Domestic Violence Hotline, which can be consulted online, has a series of recommendations in Spanish for people who suffer from partner abuse. The organization explains that there are different types of domestic violence and that the victim must learn to identify them before the tragedy.

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