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A Balch Springs woman is behind bars after police say she killed her mother’s boyfriend earlier this year.
Faye Dee O’Brien, 23, faces a murder charge in the shooting death of Ricardo Salas Garcia. She was booked into the Dallas County jail Tuesday, and her bail is set at $500,000.
According to an arrest-warrant affidavit, police were called about 4:45 a.m. Jan. 6 to a home in the 3800 block of Meredith Lane, near Elam Road and Shepherd Lane. A 911 caller reported that her daughter had shot the caller’s boyfriend and fled.
Officers found Salas dead in an upstairs bedroom, with a shower curtain wrapped around his body, a trash bag over his head and shoulders and another trash bag over his lower legs. A Glock pistol was on the bed and cleaning supplies including bleach were in the bedroom, the affidavit says.
“It appeared that somebody had attempted to clean the crime scene before the police were called,” a detective wrote.
O’Brien’s mother, who police said didn’t seem “very forthcoming,” told officers she had heard a gunshot about 1 a.m., then saw O’Brien cleaning bloodstains off the carpet while saying, “You’re never going to touch my daughter again,” the affidavit says. O’Brien and her 5-year-old daughter lived at the home with her mother and Salas, police said.
When asked by police why it took several hours to report the shooting, the mother said that she had “gone through a lot this year.”
Another relative who lives at the home was interviewed by detectives and said that she heard arguing followed by two gunshots. She said she then saw O’Brien in the hallway, holding a handgun and saying, “No body, no crime,” according to the affidavit.
She told police that she locked herself and her 2-year-old child in a bedroom. A short time later O’Brien asked her to watch her daughter and another child, then left with her daughter an hour and a half to two hours later.
O’Brien’s attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.