Husband 'shoots estranged wife in the head at point blank range in front of their four terrified children after bitter custody battle'

A 29-year-old man has been accused of breaking into the home of his estranged wife and shooting her dead in front of her four children as she tried to escape. Jesse Lee Perales allegedly smashed down the front door of Krystal Flores Perales's Laguna Shores Rd home in Corpus Christi, Texas, about 10pm Sunday. According to court documents, Perales threatened Krystal Flores Perales's sister with a gun, saying he would shoot her if she moved. He then allegedly told his son 'that he was going to kill his mother, Krystal Perales, then himself'. Gripped by fear, Krystal Flores Perales, 28, grabbed her children, ran outside and jumped over the fence into an adjacent lot to escape.

Perales allegedly followed her and shot her several times in the head at point blank range as her terrified children watched. He fled the scene. Police said the young mother died from gunshot wounds at Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital later that night, Kiiii News reported. Perales was reportedly the father of two of Krystal Flores Perales's four children and had filed for divorce in August last year. Following an anonymous tip, Perales was found the next day hiding out in an apartment complex at Staples and Saratoga.

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