LOCAL : Fight Over Man Leaves 1 Dead
A confrontation between two women who had the same boyfriend ended with one woman shot to death in a Mission Hills house and the other under arrest, Los Angeles police said this morning.
Rose Reyez, 22, was arrested this morning at her North Hollywood home and was being held on suspicion of murder in the Wednesday night shooting of Reina Quinones, 20, of Southeast Los Angeles, Detective Al Ferrand said.
Ferrand said Quinones was shot about 8 p.m. in a house in the 10100 block of Bevis Avenue. Quinones was visiting the owner of the home, Venancio Nevarez, 31, when Reyez entered the home, became upset at finding Nevarez and Quinones together and opened fire with a handgun. Quinones was hit once in the upper body and died at the scene.
Police said both women were romantically involved with Nevarez. After the shooting Reyez fled, and Nevarez told investigators that he did not see who shot Quinones, Ferrand said. But further investigation led to the arrest of Reyez about 9 a.m. today, he said.
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