The Fountain house where police suspect a man shot his girlfriend and killed their child before committing suicide was doused with gasoline, Fountain police said today.
Fountain police Chief Todd Evans confirmed that Gammall Perez and his son, Gavin, were found dead inside the house in the 7900 block of Gate Post Lane after a tense, six-hour standoff on Monday.
Police are investigating their deaths as a murder-suicide, said Fountain police Cmdr. Mike Haley.
At 2:24 p.m. Monday, police received a 911 report of a disturbance from a woman inside the house.
When officers arrived, they began talking to a man inside the house as they stood behind their cruiser with their guns drawn, said neighbor Robyn Kippen.
During the exchange, the man said his wife and 2-year-old were in the house with him.
When the officers left to re-group with other officers stationed around the block, a woman bolted from the house and was shot three times by a man chasing her, said Tiffany LaGuardia, a neighbor who drove up on the commotion.
“He came out shooting her,” LaGuardia said. “He came chasing her down, gunned her down.”
LaGuardia called 911 while the woman, Shannon Paolini, collapsed at LaGuardia’s passenger-side door.
Paolini, an El Paso County Sheriff’s Office employee, was taken to an area hospital, where she underwent surgery. She was listed in critical condition on Tuesday, and was “fighting for her life,” according to a release by the sheriff’s office.
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