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911 call yielded no help
Wife: Shooting wouldn't have occurred
By Grant Boxleitner
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Originally posted on February 04, 2006
MENDEZ-MORALES
Suspect in shooting
About 8:40 p.m. Wednesday, Ruthie Mendez dialed 911 to ask to have a Lee County sheriff's deputy dispatched.
She said she told the operator her husband, Pedro Mendez-Morales, 31, had just been at her residence with a gun. She mentioned he was under a court order not to contact her.
A deputy never came.
A half-hour later, Mendez called back to say her husband had shot her boyfriend, Miguel Angel Cobos-Gonzalez, 17, a few hundred feet from her home.