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SCHULENBURG — The Turtle COLUMBUS — A tip from a state highway patrolman led officers to a local phone business where they arrested a 38-year-old traveler suspected of gunning down his estranged wife in Georgetown.
According to various media reports, local law-enforcement agencies took Ricardo Quinones into custody about noon Dec. 27 as part of a homicide investigation.
He was charged in a warrant with murder and was transferred to the Williamson County Jail in Georgetown, where officials said he remains behind bars on a $1 million bond.
KXAN TV of Austin reported that police began searching for a gunman after Lindsey Quinones was shot to death and found on her bed in her Georgetown home about 3 a.m. Dec. 27.
A teenage girl at the residence who had been forced into a bathroom was eventually able to climb out a bedroom window, according to court documents cited in the KXAN report.
Officers reported hearing two gunshots and went to the home, the report said.
The assailant escaped in the dead woman’s green pickup; at some point, a Georgetown police officer fired on the vehicle, according to the television report.
A release from the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office indicated that at 11 a.m. Dec. 27, “Sgt. Randy Thumann received information from Department of Public Safety Trooper Landon Rabun reference a possible murder suspect traveling (Interstate 10 eastbound) in Fayette County.”
The sergeant notified the Austin County Sheriff’s Office, the West Side High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas task force and a regional special- response team, according to the prepared statement issued by Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek.
Law officers started setting up a perimeter along the interstate and searched area businesses.
According to the sheriff’s release, “Thumann located and confirmed the suspect vehicle parked in the AT&T store parking lot in Columbus … Thumann observed the suspect in the store standing at the door.”
As additional officers arrived, the wanted man “was given verbal commands and taken into custody without incident,” according to the statement.
The arrested man was held in the Colorado County Jail until Georgetown detectives arrived late Dec. 27 to serve the murder warrant, according to the Colorado County Sheriff’s Office.
The suspected assailant was then moved to the Williamson County facility.
