Man charged with murder after girlfriend’s shooting death in southeast Austin

AUSTIN, Texas — A man has been charged in the shooting death of his girlfriend in southeast Austin on Monday.

At 12:30 a.m. Monday morning, APD officers responded to reports of a shooting at a home in the 5900 block of Wagon Bend. The caller stated that a woman had been shot and was bleeding from her head, and that the suspect was still nearby.

Officers arrived and located the woman, 45-year-old Denise Tijerina, in the kitchen suffering from a gunshot wound. She was taken to the hospital in critical condition…

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