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You are here: Home / News / The Deadliest Shootings In 2016 You Didn’t Hear About

The Deadliest Shootings In 2016 You Didn’t Hear About

January 5, 2017

The real story of mass shootings in America is about a controlling man slaughtering his family.

During the last week of her life, Cynthia Villegas spoke up.

She told a relative that she was afraid of her husband, and that if anything ever happened to her, he would be to blame. She told her brother that she had recently asked for a divorce “because of the abuse” (a conversation her brother later recalled to police).

That was Thursday, June 9, 2016. By Saturday, she was dead, another victim of a mass shooting in America. According to police, her husband Juan Villegas-Hernandez shot and killed her inside their home in Roswell, New Mexico, along with their four young daughters ― Yamilen, 14; Cynthia Janeth, 11; Abby, 7; and Ida, 3. [Read Full Article]

 

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