By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A retired 57-year-old Border Patrol agent is accused of fatally shooting his wife in Texas and then taking his own life.
Authorities say Mark Martinez, a 28-year Border Patrol veteran who retired in 2015, killed his wife inside the couple’s home in West El Paso on Wednesday, BorderReport.com reports.
The next morning, investigators discovered Martinez dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a vehicle in La Union, N.M.
Police said the body of Martinez’s wife, Norma Martinez, was found by a family member.
The Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office and officers with U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force found Martinez’s body.
The El Paso Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons unit is investigating the suspected murder-suicide.
