Background: The 2600 block of Yeager Street in Fort Worth, Texas (Google Maps). Inset left: Glenda Maria Aguilera Rubio (GoFundMe). Inset right: Josue Bayardo Rodas (Tarrant County Corrections Center).
A man is in jail after Texas authorities say he murdered his wife and then left her body to be discovered by their children.
Josue Rodas, 29, is in the Tarrant County Corrections Center on a charge of murder, according to county records, and he is being held on a $500,000 bond. His alleged crime took place on Labor Day weekend.
Rodas, his wife – 21-year-old Glenda Maria Aguilera Rubio – and their two children arrived at a home on the 2600 block of Yeager Street in Fort Worth on Aug. 27, intending to “spend a few nights” there and “then move out of state,” according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.
A woman and her son were also living in the home, as well as another man who rented a room. Rodas, Rubio, and their two children came to the home “after an altercation with family members at their place of residence,” the affidavit adds. During that incident, Rodas allegedly “pointed a firearm at other family members.”
On Friday, Rodas and Rubio were “drinking alcohol” with the other man at the home when this man went to sleep between 10 and 11 p.m. When the other woman arrived back at home at about midnight, she said the couple was still drinking. This woman went to bed about an hour and a half later.
When she woke, she was apparently faced with a troubling request.
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At about 7 a.m. on Saturday, the couple”s two kids went into the woman’s bedroom “and asked her to check on their mom because she had blood on her,” the report said. The woman did just that, moving to the kitchen where Rubio’s bed was – and found the young mother “on the bed with blood on her face.”
The front door to the house was reportedly open, so the woman went outside, believing Rodas was out there. He wasn’t — and Rubio’s 2013 Toyota Corolla with a Mississippi license plate was gone, too.
The report noted that nearby surveillance video showed a similar-looking car driving away at about 4 a.m. The Fort Worth Police Department was called to the crime scene at about 7:15 a.m. Rubio “had what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head,” the affidavit said, and she was pronounced dead at 7:29 a.m.
By the time Fort Worth police officers were working to ascertain Rodas’ location, they learned officers with the Sweetwater Police Department had already detained him. According to Sweetwater police, Rodas had driven to a gas station in their jurisdiction about three hours away and called 911.
When a sergeant arrived and asked him why he called 911, Rodas allegedly “stated he had committed a homicide in Fort Worth” and did not give any other details.
Rodas was booked into the Tarrant County Corrections Center on Tuesday. It is unclear when his next day in court is.
