In the nearly two years since Theresa Cachuela was shot and killed by her husband, Jason Cachuela, one question has remained unanswered: How did he get the gun?
Theresa Cachuela had taken out a temporary restraining order against him, and police had confiscated all five of his registered firearms.
But the one he used on Dec. 22, 2023, to kill his estranged wife and then himself was not a registered weapon. It was an unserialized firearm known as a ghost gun, according to an investigative report that was recently finalized and obtained by Civil Beat last month.
While the report contains details about the gun itself — a Glock-style semi-automatic pistol from the brand Polymer80 — it doesn’t include information about how he obtained it…