Dad tells daughter to run, then he’s shot dead by her boyfriend, Texas cops say
A Texas man is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend’s father in an argument outside a restaurant, according to police.
Franco Xavier Summers, 32, is charged with murder in the shooting death of 43-year-old Christopher Fuentes, court records show.
After drinking at their apartment on Nov. 9, Summers, Fuentes and Fuentes’ 23-year-old daughter went to a bar in San Antonio, MySanAntonio reported.
In an interview with police, Fuentes’ daughter, who is Summers’ girlfriend, said she and her father did not want to pay a cover charge, prompting an argument with Summers, the outlet reported, citing court records.
Summers got back in his car and followed Fuentes around the parking lot, continuing to argue with him, KENS reported.
Surveillance footage from a nearby Taco Palenque shows Fuentes reaching inside the vehicle to grab Summers’ arm before telling his daughter to run away, according to WOAI.
Summers pulled out a gun and fired several rounds fatally hitting Fuentes before fleeing, the outlet reported. The daughter was not injured.
“He did what any good dad would do to protect his daughter,” Fuentes’ cousin David Rocha said in a GoFundMe post.
On Nov. 10, police responded to a residence for “a family disturbance with a gun,” and determined the person involved in the disturbance was Summers, according to a report from the San Antonio Police Department.
Summers was arrested on a warrant in connection to the killing of Fuentes “as well as three other unrelated warrants,” police said.
