Domestic Violence of Wife, Leads to Murder of Brother

On November 13, 2010 David Sanchez-Dominguez shot and killed his brother-in-law, Roberto Corona, for blocking his determined path to reconcile with his estranged wife, Maria Angustias Corona, as reported by Reno Gazette-Journal.

Prosecutors said that Maria Angustias Corona - who had appeared to have left Sanchez-Dominguez for the last time and was dating someone else - also had a restraining order against him for stalking her.

Sanchez-Dominguez was extremely intoxicated when he entered the home where his wife lived with her family, in the 6600 block of Fireburst Drive in Wingfield Springs, with the sole intention of seeing her. 

Angustias Corona's brother, Roberto Corona, confronted Sanchez-Dominguez and told him that his sister wasn't at home. 

Sanchez-Dominguez then pulled a gun on Corona.

Bruce Hahn, the Chief Deputy District Attorney, reported that Corona told Sanchez-Dominguez "You want to look?  She's not here.  You're going to shoot?  Right here." and then Corona pointed to his own chest.

At that moment Sanchez-Dominguez seized the opportunity, and the challenge, and pressed his 40-caliber semi-automatic pistol directly against his brother-in-law's chest.

Then he fired his weapon and killed Corona.

Sanchez-Dominguez, 33, has been charged with first-degree murder.  He was also charged with aggravated stalking and burglary.  Judge Steven Kosach, for the Washoe District, will be presiding in the case.

Corona's mother witnessed her son's slaying.  Mary Pat Barry, Sanchez-Dominguez's attorney, said that after Corona slid to the floor she slapped her son-in-law in the face at least twice.  Other relatives in the home quickly joined her in battering him further.  Male relatives tied him up after the beating to keep him imprisoned until police arrived and made their arrest.

Barry contended that the Corona family had never reported violations of the temporary restraining order - that was executed only a month before - as, she implied, they knew how devastated Sanchez-Dominguez was over the break-up of his marriage.

Barry claimed that Sanchez-Dominguez was desperate to reconcile with his wife and could no longer tolerate her absence.

On the night of the murder, Sanchez-Dominguez sat just outside of his wife's home drinking whiskey inside of his blue Jeep.  The whiskey in his system was later tested and his blood alcohol level proved to be three times the legal driving limit.

The legal driving limit in the state of Nevada is 0.08 percent.

Hahn stated that Sanchez-Dominguez had spent the last few months going to Angustias Corona's workplace and looking for her there.  Her co-workers had made note of his visits.

He also stalked her via telephone.

The couple, married since 2002, had met in Mexico.  Hahn said that during the course of their eight-year marriage Angustias Corona had been a long-time victim of her husband's abuse.

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