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Mónica Rubio was shot to death by her boyfriend Isaiah Montelongo (PHOTOS)

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  • Monica Rubio was shot to death by her boyfriend in Lubbock, Texas.
  • Isaiah Montelongo has already been arrested and charged with the girl’s death.
  • The Hispanic says that he did not kill his girlfriend and that the criminal was «another man.»

Monica Rubio was shot to death by her boyfriend Isaiah Montelongo, who is already being held in a Texas jail. The Lubbock Police Department (LPD) detained Montelongo, despite the man’s claim that he did not kill Rubio.

In the arrest warrant against 25-year-old Isaiah Montelongo, details are given regarding the murder of his girlfriend 29-year-old Monica Rubio. The shooting took place in Lubbock, Texas. The crime, that was a case of domestic violence, has left the Hispanic community grieving.

Monica Rubio was murdered by her boyfriend Isaiah Montelongo

Monica Rubio was murdered by her boyfriend Isaiah Montelongo
Monica Rubio, 29, was shot to death by her boyfriend in Lubbock, Texas. The case of domestic violence has left the Hispanic community grieving. (PHOTO: Special for MundoHispánico)

At 12:29 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, 2022, the LPD emergency line received a call from a neighbor alerting them to a shooting at a mobile home located at 1900 22nd Street, west of the Lubbock metropolitan area.

When the first LPD officers arrived on the scene, they found a Hispanic woman badly injured from at least one gunshot wound. The woman was identified as Monica Rubio. She was lying in front of the house where she lived with her boyfriend Isaiah Montelongo.

The girl died in hospital from her gunshot wounds

The girl died in hospital from her gunshot wounds.
Isaiah Montelong is already in jail waiting to face his first hearing for the shooting murder of his girlfriend Monica Rubio. (PHOTO: Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office)

The LPD officers requested the presence of the paramedics from the Lubbock Fire Department (LFD), to transport Monica Rubio to the Covenant Medical Center so that the doctors could try to save her life.

However, though Mónica Rubio made it to the emergency room where the doctors fought to save her life, she died from her injuries. Detectives from the LPD Homicide Division then took over the case.

Isaiah Montelongo offers his version of events

Isaiah Montelongo offers his version of events
The death of Mónica Rubio, «Moni» for her friends and family, has sparked deep indignation and pain. (PHOTO: Special for MundoHispánico)

Several LPD officers who arrived at Monica Rubio’s house found her boyfriend Isaiah Montelongo there. He offered the authorities his version of what happend to Rubio. Montelongo’s story eventually

Isaiah Montelongo told LPD detectives that he was inside the mobile home when he suddenly heard his girlfriend, Monica Rubio, screaming for him. Montelongo assured the police that he did not know that his girlfriend was not inside the house.

According to Montelongo «another man» killed his girlfriend

According to Montelongo "another man" killed his girlfriend
PHOTO: Taken from Facebook

The man alleges that when he left his mobile home he saw Monica Rubio standing next to “another man,” who suddenly pulled out a gun and shot the girl at close range. After shooting Rubio, Montelongo said the other man ran down 22nd Street.

According to Isaiah Montelongo, he ran to help her when he saw his girlfriend Mónica Rubio lying on the ground. He then carried her back to her house. According to his testimony, Montelongo was carrying Rubio in his arms when he noticed that the woman was bleeding profusely.

The police reviewed the footage from neighbors’ security cameras

The police check the videos on the cameras of the neighbors
PHOTO: Taken from Facebook

LPD detectives got Isaiah Montelongo’s story about Monica Rubio’s death and asked the neighbors from the surrounding houses if they could review the footage from their security cameras. They wanted to look for images of the alleged murderer as he was escaping.

However, in the video footage from the neighbors’ cameras, the detectives of the Homicide Division of the LPD did not find anything that revealed someone running down the street after the shots that killed Monica Rubio were heard.

A bloody bullet and hair on the pillow

A bullet with blood and hair on the pillow
PHOTO: Taken from Facebook

One of the LPD investigators entered the mobile home shared by Monica Rubio and her boyfriend, Isaiah Montelongo, to check the area where the man said he had put the girl. The detective found a bullet on a pillow inside the house.

The bullet that was on the pillow had blood and several hairs embedded in it. Forensic tests revealed that the hair belonged to the dead Monica Rubio. The evidence in the mobile home was not consistent with the statement offered by Isaiah Montelongo.

Isaiah Montelongo is charged with murder

Isaiah Montelongo is already charged with murder
PHOTO: Taken from Facebook

Based on the forensic evidence and the contradictory story given by Isaiah Montelongo, the detectives from the LPD Homicide Division arrested the man and accused him of gunning down his girlfriend Mónica Rubio, in another case of domestic violence.

Isaiah Montelongo is being held in the Lubbock County jail, awaiting his first hearing for the murder of his girlfriend Monica Rubio. The Texas State Penal Code states that the homicide charge is punishable with a sentence of 20 to 99 years in prison.

One more victim of gun violence

One more victim of firearms
PHOTO: Taken from Facebook

The shooting death of Mónica Rubio by Isaiah Montelongo is one more case of gun violence in the United States. The non-profit organization National Gun Violence Archive, reported that so far in 2022, 6,704 people have already been shot to death.

As of Sunday, February 27, 2022, of those people shot to death in the United States, a total of 2,876 were killed and 3,828 committed suicide. 5,052 people were injured. The country has already experienced 68 mass shootings in which at least four people died in the same crime.

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