Jorge Zaragoza retrieved a handgun and shot his wife, hitting her in the neck, then turned the gun on himself.

The Stockton Police Department reported that around 9 p.m., the Zaragozas were arguing at their home in the 200 block of Horton Avenue when Jorge Zaragoza retrieved a handgun and shot his wife, hitting her in the neck, then turned the gun on himself.Gabriela Zaragoza, 47, is recovering at San Joaquin General Hospital. Her husband, Jorge Zaragoza, died at the scene.Jorge and Gabriela Zaragoza's son, George, 23, said he heard his parents arguing in the backyard and ran outside when he heard his sister begin to scream.He made it outside in time to see his father shoot his mother and then raise the gun to his own head. George Zaragoza tried to wrest the gun from his father's hands, he said, but was too late."Before I could do anything, he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger," he said.George Zaragoza said his father had always been a hot-tempered man but had lately fallen into a dark depression.A welder by trade, Jorge Zaragoza had been sidelined with a back injury. And Jorge, who had always taken pride in his appearance and his health, recently lost an eye after someone hit him with a glass bottle, his son said.
George Zaragoza said even as his mother lay in a hospital bed, she had already turned her mind to the well-being of her children. And she had sympathy for her husband, he said."She still loved him," George Zaragoza said.

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