Eagle Passan Jaime Moreno ends standoff shooting himself

By: Jose G. Landa©

Eagle Passan Jaime Moreno, age 49, ended his four hour standoff with Eagle Pass Police Department and Texas Rangers tragically shooting himself in the chest with a .38 caliber handgun at 2262 San Juan Drive in Eagle Pass, Texas. Moreno was rushed by ambulance to the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center where he died from his self-inflicted gunshot wound. Maverick County Justice of the Peace Teresa Melendrez pronounced Moreno dead at 6:35 pm.

Based on information and belief, Moreno earlier today, December 11, 2012, had an argument at his workplace with his supervisor, Warden Raul Trevino, at the GEO Maverick County Detention Center. Moreno called his family members to say goodbye to them and visited his wife at her Eagle Pass Independent School District elementary school to tell her goodbye and flashed a handgun at her as he drove away from her workplace. Moreno drove to the front of his rental home at 2262 San Juan Drive and parked his white Ford single cab truck in front of his home and called several family members from his cell phone as Eagle Pass Police Officers arrived at San Juan Drive to locate an armed male subject later identified as Moreno and cordoned that street and a perimeter of other neighborhood streets.

During the standoff, Moreno requested to speak to his mother, wife, and other family members and individuals. The Eagle Pass Police SWAT team was called to the scene and its negotiators valiantly spoke to Moreno to abandon his suicide ideation s and assuring him that everything would be alright upon his abandoning his tragic plans but were unsuccessful as Moreno inflicted a single gunshot wound into his chest area at approximately 5:15 p.m.

Before shooting himself, Moreno spoke to his supervisor Warden Raul Trevino, Police Chief Tony Castaneda, Maverick County Sheriff Tomas S. Herrera, his mother, wife, certain family members, and other unknown persons.

The Texas Rangers and Eagle Pass Police Department are investigating the tragic incident in the usual quiet Vista Hermosa Subdivision in Eagle Pass.