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Man Allegedly Commits Murder-Suicide in Front of TX Church’s Altar

Posted on January 13, 2012 at 10:18am by Billy Hallowell
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A Helotes, Texas, Catholic church is the center of investigations after an apparent murder-suicide took place inside on Wednesday. Currently, police are attempting to put details together surrounding how two bodies ended up in front of the church’s altar.

The current theory is that Manuel Rodriguez, 51, shot and killed Zeferina Castillo, 54, before taking his own life. The bodies were discovered inside Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church — a shock to congregants and the community, alike. No one is quite sure why the couple showed up at the church in the first place, considering that neither was a parishioner.

While motivation has not been determined, authorities believe that Rodriguez shot Castillo numerous times in her upper torso, then turned the gun on himself. Anthony Burgess, a spokesperson for the police, says the two “were involved — apparently for a while.”

MySanAntonio.com has more:

Witnesses at the church said the pair were well dressed and composed when they walked in together, apparently after arriving in separate vehicles, Burgess said.

“There was no push, no grab, no tussle. It looked like they were just walking into church,” he said. “There was nothing out of the ordinary.”

Police Investigate Alleged Murder Suicide at Catholic Church | Manuel Rodriguez & Zeferina Castillo

Image Credit: San Antonio Express-News/AP

Motion-sensitive CCTV cameras captured the couple walking toward the altar, but when they stopped moving, the recording ceased as well. Around 3:00 p.m. local time, gunshots were heard and the two were later found between a baptismal font and the altar; the pistol Rodriguez purportedly used was between the bodies.

Castillo, a local businesswoman, has been heralded by those she left behind as kind and giving. The owner of Castillo Mission Funeral Home — a business she helped her husband start before his death in 2007 — Castillo was said to be helpful to the families her business served.

“Her direction to us was that we utilize our hearts to provide dignified services for our families, and that’s all she asked of us,” said Art Gandar, a manager at the funeral home.

(H/T: FOX News)

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CRAPGIVER
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:27am
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SurhanSurhan
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:01pm
Honor killing?!
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MONICNE
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 2:16pm
This is why I have concealed carry. If everyone were able to shoot at everyone else, this would never have happened.

The article did not state whether the two “Catholics” went straight to meet their alleged Christian makers or the other place.

TEA
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- seldomscene
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 9:44pm
  Did you notice no one said allegedly about the Marines? Every time a homicider goes up it is alleged. Go figure.
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BurntHills
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:35pm
what is so politically correct ALLEGED about it. we are sick of the obamastupid word ALLEGED being used when you saw it for youself or the perp is right there in front of witnesses or on camera. they did it or they did not.
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FoxholeAtheist
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:04pm
Hallelujah! Praise the lord for this blessing! After all, god saw it coming so he must have known all about it from before he even formed the universe and still didn’t do anything about it. It must all be part of his plan. Thanks be to Jesus!

Oh wait, somewhere babies and small furry defenseless animals are dying in miserable painful ways all to the glory of god. Hallelujah! Praise the lord. Shall I thank Jesus now or wait until he destroys the earth and everything in it so I can thank him for all eternity?

We should all get on our knees every time we hear of these blessings because it’s all part of his grand scheme.
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- tommybiggs
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:16pm
  Every knee shall bow and evry tongue confess…
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- fertlmind
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:33pm
  @FoxholeAtheist
  
  So where would YOU go shoot yourself and your girlfriend that has meaning to you?
  A local porn store,… how about an abortion clinic,…or possibly an OWS rally?
  Dumba$$!
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- scarebear83
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 4:50pm
  You know if God were to intervene like some people think He should then that means our free will is out the window. Bad things happen not because God is to blame but because man is. Man has free will and often times abuses it by doing the wrong thing. It doesn’t mean God is not there. Take 9/11 for instance, could God have stopped the terrorists? Sure but He would have intervened with man’s free will. But out of that tragedy we hear and read of so many brave people who sacrificed their lives to save others, of so many people the days after who volunteered their services or gave blood, of our country actually laying aside our differences just for a short time and unify as one. God was in the same place when Jesus was beaten, bruised, spit upon and hung to suffer and die on a cross, as He was when the 1st century Christians were beaten and bruised and killed under the Roman empire, as He was when so many people lost their lives on 9/11. He was and is there to comfort all who come to Him. In this tragic case it is not God who is to blame but the man who used His free will to commit this vile act. Christians can only hope and pray that the families will find comfort.
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- Abraham Young
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 6:36pm
  Really, you would have Him interfere in our every move? You want us to have NO CHOICE in God’s world to do good or evil and obtain the reward or the blame for that? What kind of world would YOU have built I wonder? I would not wish to join you in it.
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- azulag
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 9:43pm
  “The thief (satan) does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I (Jesus) have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. Jn. 10:10
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- walleye01
  Posted on January 14, 2012 at 7:53am
  @foxholeatheist…Oh wait, somewhere babies and small furry defenseless animals are dying in miserable painful ways all to the glory of god. Hallelujah!…
  God loves life not death…just because all things are preordained does not mean things occurred the way God wanted them…we have free will as human beings and are responsible for our own individual actions whether glory is achieved or not…before you judge our faith maybe you would be better off attempting to objectify…
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- QuietBeige
  Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:31pm
  FOXHOLEATHEIST – don’t comment when drunk or high. Just a suggestion.
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- dpselfe
  Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:56am
  Oh, gee, look, some dumba$$ Atheist has nothing better to do than to mock others beliefs! Sure wish I had the kind of faith he has to BELIEVE that the Universe “created itself” out of nothing, and through a series of statistically IMPOSSIBLE “coincidences” put intelligent life on Earth. Ya can’t accept the concept that someone (GOD) was responsible for it all, but you’re willing to put your FAITH in something even less likely than a tornado passing over a junkyard and forming a functional 747 airliner. Yeah, you’re the SANE one in the room, pal. Keep on BELIEVING that one too.
  As for God knowing it was going to happen, or “allowing” other tragedies to occur, you and I will never understand the “why” question in relation to them. Ever stop and think for a second that there are just some things that defy our understanding? Nahhhhhh. You’re way too smart for that. I’m sure your degree is in something useful like philosophy, which makes you an expert in all things others can’t understand.
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- CRAPGIVER
  Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:38am
  Go ahead and enjoy yourself,while you can. because sooner than you think you will be crying to know and understand , all that you were supposed to learn through out your life time.
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JERSEYJUDE
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:15pm
@your sensei…Never be afraid to sit awhile and think before you speak.
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COFemale
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:05pm
PIPER60 – you will learn who to ignore on here. SENSEI is the first. She is a bitter ole hag who can’t get a boyfriend, so she comes on here spouting her hateful rhetoric because she is such a loser and hateful person. And like all Liberals, she isn’t funny.

And then you have ELIAISM – he/she is the resident mental case. He is in serious need of psych help and you will know when he/she is off the meds.

There are several others. You just learn not to give them the time of day. You just can’t fix stupid.
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:56am
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Can one of you tell me what is wrong with saying..

More Illegal Mexican Crime? Or Round them up and ship them off to Iraq?
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- texasfireguy
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:13pm
  Why do you assume it is more “illegal Mexican crime”? Is it because they have Hispanic names? So is every Hispanic illegal? You should read the article before you speak, they owned a local funeral home, a business that is regulated by the state. I really doubt that they were illegals.
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getalong
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:55am
Did he Tebow? Disgusting comment!
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brother_ed
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:18am
Your compassion and wit are underwhelming.
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piper60
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:17am
Perhaps the female half of the couple was pregnant?
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Eliasim
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:15am
How come if people are so sure there is a heaven, why is it they mourn when someone dies?
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- Eliasim
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:19am
  The simple answer is that they don’t really know there is a heaven. And then they twist it into an earthly understanding believing (and familiar spirits cement in the belief) that they will be drinking Tea with relatives in Heaven. And yet Christians are not really Christians because Jesus said that in Heaven people are like the Angels and they neither marry or anything else earthly. Because God is the Lord of the living, and that’s why God only knows the hearts of men.
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- Faith in God
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:33am
  Jesus is the God of the living..and if your sealed by him, then you will have life for ever. He is real, yesterday, today and forever,.
- getalong
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:58am
  It sad when you have to answer your own question because it is so ridiculous.
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- ph2691
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:43pm
  The simple answer is because we are selfish and want them to stay with us. Ever cried when you were a kid and had to leave behind a loved one in another state after a vacation, or they came and visited you and had to leave? You know it is going to be a long time before you see them again, so you cry because you will miss them and want them to stay. Mourning doesn’t mean there is no Heaven.
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- americanfirst
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:06pm
  Mormons have really cool data on this!
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- Biddle
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 2:28pm
  Amen.
  Karlfried Graf Durckheim’s path of initiation – mentions encounters with God….in prayer, meditation, alone with God. Once we get a taste of that….we will not fear death! I am not trying to start a debate…if anything I appreciate your take on the Word, and I seek to reason with others concerning these matters. Iron sharpens iron!
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- Abraham Young
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 6:37pm
  Why are you so insensitive that you have no feeling for the loss of life? What kind of character have you created for yourself ?
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Eliasim
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:13am
Well that really stinks. Suicide is worse than murder. That’s why at the end of the age men will beg for death and not find it, because they know suicide is wrong in God’s eyes.
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- CRAPGIVER
  Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:53am
  @ AMERICANFIRST Huntsman, and Mitt Are MORMONS and that includes GLENN
  BECK AND HIS SIDE KICKS., self rashious idiots, if you really want to know how good the MORMONS ARE CHECK THIS LINL http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6049 and learn how nice the MORMONS ARE,SEE HOW MUCH THEY LOVE HUMANITY, BEFORE YOU SAY ANY THING STUPID THAT IS WHY WE NEED MITT TO GET US OUT OF THIS MESS WE ARE IN
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javasport
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 10:58am
Wanna know why I carry (consealed of course) even in church? Its not the church members I am afraid of.
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- Eliasim
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:25am
  What are you afraid of, the serpent giving the sermon?
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 10:49am
Sad. Probably, one, or the other, most likely Ms. Castillo, thought being at the church would help. Too bad they couldn’t work it out another way.
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the_ancient
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 10:39am
And you know they were illegal how?

Comments like that do not help your cause, I am all for enforcing the law, but not all brown people are illegal
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- IRONRANGER
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 10:46am
  Brown people with green cards are allowed. Ask the Arizona immigration laws.
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- piper60
  Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:16am
  NOTHING IN THIS ARTICLE talks about immigration. WTF?
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