Affidavit: Night of drinking, threats ends in tragic Fort Worth shooting

After a night of drinking, Bianca Jimenez decided to go by her ex-boyfriend’s home on Selene Street in the early morning hours of April 24.

Before the night was over, she had been shot to death, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by the Star-Telegram on Tuesday.

Jimenez, who was with friend Alexis Ortiz, became enraged when she saw a vehicle parked in front of the ex-boyfriend’s home — it was his new girlfriend’s car. She stopped to scratch the car with a key and drove away, the affidavit says.

Her ex-boyfriend got in a car and chased her through the neighborhood, exchanged words with her and returned to his home. Jimenez also went back to his home on Selene Street.

A friend of her ex-boyfriend and the new girlfriend told Jimenez to leave the neighborhood. When she refused, the friend shot her, according to the affidavit.

Joe Angel Lopez, 18, of Fort Worth was arrested a few days later and charged with murder, according to Tarrant County court records.

He was free Tuesday after posting $30,000 bail shortly after his arrest. He could not be reached later for comment.

The affidavit provided further details about the shooting.

Ortiz told Detective J.T. Rhoden that she and Jimenez, who had been drinking at a bar, drove to the 1400 block of Selene Street to the home of Jimenez’s ex-boyfriend, Joseph David Rodriguez.

After Jimenez keyed his car, she blew the horn until Rodriguez came out, and then drove away. Rodriguez jumped into his girlfriend’s vehicle and chased Jimenez and Ortiz through the neighborhood.

He pulled up beside Jimenez and Ortiz at an intersection and exchanged words. Ortiz said that as they drove away, someone fired a shot at them. Rodriguez later told his girlfriend that he only pointed a gun at Jimenez.

Jimenez and Ortiz went back to Rodriguez’s home, passing Lopez in a car on the street. Lopez leaned out of a window and began arguing with Jimenez, Ortiz told the detective.

Lopez got out, walked up to Ortiz and Jimenez’s vehicle and told Jimenez not to come back to that street or he would shoot her. Lopez got back into his vehicle.

Ortiz told the detective that Jimenez said something like “whatever,” and a shot was fired from Lopez’s vehicle.

Police found Jimenez lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. She died a few hours later at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth.

This story was originally published May 17, 2016 at 2:01 PM with the headline "Affidavit: Night of drinking, threats ends in tragic Fort Worth shooting."