Man Arrested for Fiance’s Homicide After Disturbing Google Search: Police

Police in Baytown now consider Ty Vaughn, 31, shot Luis Banos Norberto, 27, on January 14 and tried to stage the aftermath to match a false suicide narrative.

Police reported discovering Norberto’s physique mendacity on the mattress with a rifle propped up towards considered one of his arms and a torn image of him and Vaughn mendacity close by. He had died from a rifle shot to considered one of his eyes, in line with court docket paperwork reviewed by ABC affiliate KTRK.

Vaughn initially informed police he and Norberto had been arguing earlier than he returned to their second-floor condo to seek out him useless at round 5:30 within the morning, per the filings, however subsequent investigations revealed a special story.

By way of interviews with neighbors and surveillance footage, detectives put collectively a timeline of identified occasions that contradicted with Vaughn’s story.

He claimed he wasn’t dwelling at 4:05 a.m. on that day, however he was seen on footage strolling up the steps to his condo. Two totally different neighbors informed police they heard a gunshot shortly after this.

At 4:27 a.m., after his fiancé was already useless, in line with police, Vaughn texted Norberto’s cellphone, “Babe? Babe why are you not texting again?!?!”

Greater than an hour later, at 5:38 a.m., Vaughn referred to as 911 and informed dispatchers, “My partner is useless. Assist. My life is over.”

Throughout their interviews with Vaughn, police reported that he repeatedly introduced up Norberto’s immigration standing with out being prompted or requested. A search of his cellphone information revealed that he had Googled, “Can I kill an unlawful human?”

Based on an on-line obituary for Norberto, he was born in Guerrero, Mexico, with a lot of his household now dwelling in Baytown, together with his brothers, mother and father, grandparents, nephews and nieces.

KTRK additionally spoke with Vaughn earlier than he’d been formally charged with Norberto’s homicide. When requested if he and Norberto had spoken the day of the homicide, Vaughn purportedly informed the outlet, “I do not know. The police know all the main points.”

When requested what police informed him, the outlet stated he replied, “I do not know. I have been sort of not nice. I have never actually been going to police searching for solutions.”

When supplied his condolences by the information station, Vaughn reportedly stated, “I imply, it’s what it’s.”

Vaughn is being held on the Harris County Jail on a $500,000 bond forward of his first court docket look in the present day, the place he’s anticipated to be charged in relation to Norberto’s dying.