A 27-year-old man is behind bars after a double homicide involving a pair of roommates, which was followed by an intentional fire, according to the Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff David Soward said on the early morning of June 29, a man who had been partially living in a home in the 100 block of Peach Tree in Leming arrived to find it had been set on fire and smoke was billowing out.
Soward said West had been shot in the head. Her roommate, 33-year-old Mary Heinz, of Leming, was missing.Six days of intense investigation followed to learn more about West’s death and Heinz’s disappearance, according to the ACSO. Montoya was seen moving his vehicle close to a dumpster and got out of his car around 9 p.m. before grabbing two plastic trash bags and throwing them in the dumpsters, according to Soward.
Montoya was taken to the sheriff’s office in Jourdanton, where Soward said he confessed to shooting and killing both women during interrogation.The sheriff said Montoya took investigators to where Heinz’s body was located, near a county road about five miles north of Poteet.
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