Police were called during the early morning hours of Nov. 5, 2014, to a duplex in the 400 block of Neal Avenue after a teenager in the home called 911 for help, saying Santiago shot her mother and then himself, according to reports.
Inside the home, police found 31-year-old Ashia R. McFadden had been shot in the face. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
“After shooting her in her face, he turned the gun around and shot himself in the head, but he survived,” Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr. wrote on his social media.
The children were in the care of relatives following the shooting.
“The defendant had significant injuries from his self-inflicted gunshot,” prosecutor’s office spokesman Greg Flannagan said, which is why there was a more than six-year delay in filing charges against the suspect. “His medical condition needed to improve before we could proceed with the case.”
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