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BY DEANNA BOYDMay 22, 2018 04:58 PM
Updated May 23, 2018 02:46 PM
FORT WORTH
Two teenagers who police say broke into a west Fort Worth apartment, then fatally shot a mother home caring for her young son, are members of a recently formed gang in the Las Vegas Trail area, police say.

One of the boys told investigators that the pair had broken into the Manitoba apartment of Yesenia Gutierrez on Friday afternoon after peering into a window, seeing a video gaming device, and thinking it would be an easy "lick."

When they kicked open the door, they found Gutierrez, 31, inside.

They demanded her phone — which she gave them — but then shot her in the head before running, according to information released by police Tuesday.

Yesenia Gutierrez's husband had been at work when he received a text from his wife at 11:04 a.m. Friday, asking him to answer his phone.

He tried to help her before grabbing their 3-year-old son to get him out of the apartment. Crying and covered in his wife's blood, he asked a neighbor to call 911.

By Mary Stringini Released 9:25 PM, Jul 6, 2018
Updated 3:46 AM, Jul 9, 2018
Pinellas County detectives say that on June 22, a 60-year-old man was standing outside of his apartment on Grove Park Avenue in unincorporated St. Petersburg when he saw two men trespassing and cutting through the apartment complex parking lot. Detectives say the resident yelled at the men and told them to stay off the property.

Detectives say that the two men left the property and returned carrying rocks and a shovel.

Detectives say there was a verbal argument between the 64-year-old resident and the two subjects. During the argument, one of the subjects threw a rock and struck the resident in the head. The man fell to the ground and the subjects fled the scene on foot.