Police in Texas said a man who was married to his wife for less than one month told officers that he was “obligated” to kill her.
Francisco Mendez-Marin, 23, was charged with murder after police said he stabbed 20-year-old Karla Rangel to death in their apartment on March 18. According to an affidavit obtained by local Fox affiliate KDFW, officers from the Carrollton Police Department responded to an apartment building on March 18 at 4:40 a.m. after receiving a call about a disturbance.
When officers entered one of the apartments, they found Mendez-Marin, who was covered in blood, and another unnamed individual. Also inside was Rangel, Mendez-Marin’s wife of less than a month, who was unresponsive with a gaping wound to her neck…