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Two teenage girls in a relationship were found with gunshot wounds to the head in a south Texas park, with one of them dying from her injuries, media reports say. Police were searching for their assailants.
Mollie Judith Olgin, 19, and Mary Christine Chapa, 18, were found in knee-deep grass in a nature area in Portland by a couple Saturday, said Portland Police Chief Randy Wright, who confirmed to msnbc.com details first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller Times.
Olgin, originally from Ingleside but recently living in Corpus Christi, died; Chapa, of Sinton, was rushed to a hospital where she had surgery and was in serious but stable condition on Sunday, local NBC affiliate kristv.com reported. Wright said Chapa was still in the hospital on Monday.
Friends told kristv.com that the girls had been together five months. Wright said he didnt have any information about their relationship, noting that we understood from their friends that they were (in a romantic relationship). I know from
Mollies parents that they were very close.
When asked if police had been able to determine if the girls' sexuality played any role in the shootings, Wright told msnbc.com: Thats always something that were looking for, but as of this point, we have not been able to establish that that had anything to do with the attack.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/25/12402620-teen-lesbian-couple-found-shot-in-texas-park?lite
GreenPartyVoter
(72,378 posts)FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Intellectually, I am against the death penalty. It's not a deterrent, it is unfairly applied, and innocent people get executed.
Emotionally, I want to take razor blades and lemon juice to whoever shot these young ladies. Not sure if it was homophobia or a spurned ex-lover, but I don't care. I hope they are caught, and I hope they go to prison for the rest of their lives, and I hope their lives in the joint are a daily living hell.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)I heard the girls wore hoodies.
StarryNight
(71 posts)malaise
(269,053 posts)Throw away the keys
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)We don't know, yet, whether this had anything to do with their relationship, but that seems likely, all things considered. In any case, two young women are dead by someone's hand. The fact that they were shot in the head gives an execution-style color to their deaths. There are several possible scenarios, and we won't know the motive unless someone is arrested in this case.
May the shooter be found quickly!