It was a deadly year for homicides in New Braunfels and Comal County, which together totaled seven murders for 2020, according to nationwide crime statistics released Monday.
According to one resident, New Braunfels police said the Champions Village subdivision never registered a bleep on the cityâs crime monitor.
âYou could count the numbers of crimes on one hand â minus some fingers,â he said.
That was until Thursday, when police said a mother shot and killed her 10-year-old son and wounded her 16-year-old daughter before turning the gun on herself.Â
âI knew the mother and her children â weâre very, very sad,â said the manâs wife, adding over 15 years the couple had come to know the family living in a residence in the 500 block of Wilderness Way, where first-responders encountered a grisly scene just before 10 a.m.