University Place shooting victim was told ‘it was my time to die’
Feb 22, 2016, 7:43 AM | Updated: 7:45 am
A shootout on I-5 that left a homicide suspect dead caused miles of backups in Lakewood on Saturday. (KIRO 7)
(KIRO 7)
The woman police say was killed by a convicted felon over the weekend at University Place Care Center had filed a protection order against the man less than a day before.
Jessica Ortega, 27, filed the order against Marcos Perea at the Pierce County Courthouse on Friday morning, KIRO 7 reports. Perea had held her at gunpoint for about 45 minutes, threatening to kill her.
She wrote: “I feel bad for him because I know he has a psychological problem. It is very evident by the other night but I have to make sure I am safe because I have two children of my own.”
She also asked that Perea, a felon, was stripped of his firearms.
“He had a gun pointed at my head telling me it was my time to die,” Ortega wrote in the request for the protection order.
As Ortega arrived at work the next day, Perea shot her multiple times, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.
Perea was later killed in a shootout with police on I-5.
A GoFundMe page was setup to help pay for Ortega’s funeral costs. Anything left over will be given to her two children, a 5-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl.
