A family has been shattered after a violent husband shot dead his young wife and their two children at their home in Texas.
Police were called to the 3600 block of NE 14th Avenue in Amarillo early on Saturday evening after a family member found the bodies of Jose Olmos his wife Jessica, 33, and their children Jazele and Daniel.
The 42-year-old electrician had been arrested by Amarillo Police on May 19 on charges of assaulting a family member but returned to the family home after being released on a $500 bond.
Investigators believe Olmos killed himself and his family in a murder-suicide and mugshot taken at the time of his arrest reveals scratch marks on the neck of the suspected killer.
‘Oh Jessica Olmos! I’m so sorry that I couldn’t help you out of this,’ family friend Clara Nunez wrote on Facebook.
Jose Olmos, 42, with Jazele and Daniel, the children he is suspected of murdering before killing himself at the family home in Amarillo on Saturday evening
• The body of the children’s mother Jessica Olmos, 33, was also found by a horrified relative
Jazale and Daniel are amazing kids. I promise you that I’ll do everything in my power to make sure that you’ll be remembered forever. It doesn’t end here I promise!’
The couple who marked their tenth wedding anniversary on July 4 had lived at Olmos’s address since their marriage.
Jessica worked as an office manager for Jeff Bara State Farm Agency in the town and her 7th grade daughter was a keen wrestler.
Just months earlier the family had posed for a seemingly idyllic photoshoot in the fields near their home, and photographer Anna Vega spoke of her shock at their violent deaths.
‘I am so devastated by the news this morning,’ she wrote as she reposted the pictures on Facebook.
‘I told you while you were here but Jessica it was an absolute honor to have worked with you and your beautiful kids.
‘Jazele and Daniel were so sweet, I can still picture them giggling and laughing when Daniel jumped on her back.
‘In a world that’s so morbid, the reason I posted these photos was so hopefully people get to see a small glimpse of the shining light you all were and not just the final moments that took you all away.’
Jessica had lost her younger sister in February last year, and the troubled couple joined the rest of her family to celebrate mother’s day with mother Blanca Menendez just six days before Olmos’s arrest for domestic violence in May this year.
- The deaths took place less than four months after Olmos was freed on a $500 bond after being released on domestic abuse charges
Jessica’s stepdaughter Arianna Olmos pointedly omitted the father as she paid a moving tribute to his murdered family.
‘When I was told three of the most caring souls I knew gained their angel wings my heart sunk and broke into pieces,’ the West Texas A&M University student wrote.
‘You three were loved by all those around you and will be missed.
‘Jazale my baby I’m going to miss that smile of yours, your laugh, and goofy faces.
‘Daniel I will miss your smile and your love for cars.
Jessica I was thankful to have someone like you as a stepmom and still showed me love and cared for me.
‘I’m grateful that God had put you and the kids in my life. I can’t even put into words how hurt I am.’
Daily Mail
