In an interview with detectives, Jimenez-Rico said his parents and sister had been on a monthlong trip to Mexico and just returned that very evening. He did not accompany his family because “he did not have money to go.”
He told police his family regularly “gangs up on him because he is unemployed and he feels they bully him.” When they arrived home a few hours earlier, Jimenez-Rico said he asked if anyone needed help with their luggage and was told his help wasn’t needed, so he went back downstairs to his room.
That is when the situation took a turn for the worse.
“His father then came down to complain about the dirty dishes in the sink. Jimenez-Rico explained the sink was clogged and the pipe/plumbing needed attention,” the affidavit states.
“Upstairs, Jimenez-Rico said his dad continued to ‘get on his case’ and his sister also joined in complaining. He stated the bullying has gone on ‘for many years now, and he just got fed up with it.'”
Jimenez-Rico said he had a handgun in his waistband during the ensuing argument with his father, who told Jimenez-Rico “that he needed to find another place to live.” Jimenez-Rico said the argument turned into him asking “if he was really being kicked out over dirty dishes” as both his father and his sister “continued on his case.”
“Jimenez-Rico said he thought about going back to the basement where his bedroom is, ‘but then he said he was just fed up with putting up with the bullying from his father and his sister,'” the affidavit states. “He went on to state that ‘he pointed the gun in his father’s direction and recalls firing the gun more than once.’
After shooting his father, Jimenez-Rico claimed his sister “armed herself with a knife,” so he “then shot her to prevent getting stabbed,” police wrote. An autopsy showed that she suffered four gunshot wounds to the lungs, chest, back, and arm.
He shot his mother as she came into the room but claimed “he did not intend” to fire at her and “could not explain why he did.”
