A Texas grand jury indicted a woman on Thursday who is accused of attacking her then-boyfriend in a shooting that left her hospitalized for weeks — and now she’s speaking out.
Alexys Pinto, 23, was arrested in September and charged with aggravated assault of a family member in the fatal shooting of her then-boyfriend, Elvis Muñoz, according to Harris County records reviewed by HuffPost. Pinto was released last week after a judge reduced his bond from $75,000 to $10,000.
Muñoz told the locals CBS affiliate KHOU that he is afraid “He might want to come back and do something.”
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Muñoz, a mechanic, told police that on Sept. 5, he received the car for work from a customer while he was at Pinto’s house, according to a criminal complaint obtained by HuffPost.
Shortly after the customer stopped their car in his driveway, Pinto confronted Munoz. In complaint, Muñoz described Pinto as angry, and he began to engage in physical activity with her when she tried to calm him down. Said Pinto one time he kicked their dog violently.
At one point in the argument, Pinto asked Muñoz to take him to a romantic spot where they had watched the sunset together, according to the complaint. Muñoz said he often asked his girlfriend at the time why she wanted to go there, but she persisted.
Muñoz told police he drove to the scene, but seconds after he pulled into the road, Pinto ran out of Munoz’s truck. Munoz said he chased after Pinto, yelling for him to come back. But when he caught her, she allegedly cursed at him angrily.
“Teach me to hunt deer, do you think I will go deer hunting?” he said, according to the complaint.
Confused, Muñoz asked Pinto what he meant. Then he heard a gunshot.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Muñoz told ABC affiliate KTRK. “I looked down, and I started to see all the blood flowing through my body, flowing.”
Muñoz sustained a gunshot wound to the arm and chest, according to the complaint. All he remembered was Pinto holding a black gun.
Muñoz told police he was in disbelief and thought he should run, but Pinto shot him hard, according to the complaint. Muñoz said he heard Pinto tell someone on the phone, “He shot me,” before trying to cut him off, saying, “No, I didn’t.”
Pinto then looked at Muñoz and said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do that to you, I didn’t shoot you in the right places!” according to the complaint. Pinto stood over him and pointed a gun at his face before shooting him again, hitting him in the arm instead of killing him.
“As soon as I opened my eyes, I was gone [saw] a gun to my head. Looking out, seeing him like he’s happy to hold a gun to my head,” Muñoz told KTRK.
Muñoz told police that he asked Pinto to call an ambulance several times, but he replied, “I didn’t want to do this to you, it had to be quick!” according to the complaint.
In an interview with NBC affiliate KPRC, Muñoz said he did everything he could to convince Pinto to get help, including promising to tell police he didn’t know who shot him.
“I told him I loved him, and I still wanted to be with him, I wanted to keep growing up with him, have kids with him, and just try to get into his head to convince him to help me,” Muñoz told KPRC. . “I was asking him, call an ambulance, call an ambulance.”
The two then returned to Muñoz’s truck and drove to a nearby gas station, according to the complaint. Surveillance footage cited in the complaint showed Pinto running out of the truck and talking to the store manager while Munoz sat in the passenger seat, holding his stomach.
Muñoz was hospitalized and underwent multiple surgeries and a hospital stay of more than a month following the attack, according to a fundraiser started by his sister.
“Every day brings new challenges to face,” the sister wrote in the GoFundMe.
Muñoz told KPRC that she still doesn’t know why Pinto shot her, but she reflected on how she was treated over the three years of her relationship with him.
“I have always worked hard to take care of him as much as I can. “Sometimes I didn’t even eat so that he could have good food,” Muñoz told the newspaper. “He will be jealous, controlling, he would separate me from my family and friends. He has a grudge.”
Court records show police arrested Pinto on Sept. 17 and the judge granted Muñoz a protective order. An attorney listed as Pinto’s legal representative did not respond to an email from HuffPost commenting on the matter.
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