Commands.
Containment.
Jose was still inside.
Then his daughter tried something different.
She called her father herself.
No answer.
That must have been almost unbearable.
She had watched him shoot her mother.
Now she was standing behind police vehicles while armed officers surrounded her family home.
She tried to reach the man responsible.
He would not answer.
Then her little brother tried.
Ten years old.
A child who had already run from a house where his father had shot his mother.
He called Jose.
This time, Jose answered.
Father and son spoke for several minutes.
The source does not provide a full transcript of that conversation.
That gap matters.
It would be wrong to invent a dramatic speech the boy supposedly gave.
We do not know every word.
What we do know is that Jose listened.
Then the call ended.
For a moment, nothing happened.
Then Jose called police again.
His position had changed.
He said he was ready to surrender.
The Ten-Year-Old Changes the Standoff
Police had spent close to two hours trying to achieve exactly that.
Yet even now, nobody relaxed.
Jose had already lied about his son still being inside.
He had fired toward police.
He had shot the drone.
He had allegedly said he wanted police to kill him.
A statement that he was surrendering could be genuine.
Or it could be another attempt to draw officers into the open.
The tactical plan remained in place.
The sniper watched the entrance.
Officers were told not to crowd the radio with commands.
One designated officer would handle verbal instructions.
Everyone else would hold position.
No confusion.
No unnecessary shouting.
The front door was watched.
Police called again.
Come outside.
Hands visible.
Then movement.
Jose appeared.
For the officers, the most dangerous seconds of the entire standoff may have been those immediately after he emerged.
A suspect walking outside is not automatically safe.
Where are his hands?
Is something hidden?
Is he following commands?
Will he suddenly turn?
Police ordered him to stop.
Hands out.
Do not move.
The arrest team approached.
Jose complied.
After nearly two hours, the man who had fired inside the home, fired toward police, and refused repeated demands to surrender was finally placed in handcuffs.
No officer had to shoot him.
Jose was alive.
The children were alive.
The neighborhood was secure.
Now police could finally do what Lizette's friends had been begging them to do.
Go inside.
The Search for Lizette
Officers entered cautiously.
Even though Jose was in custody, a house after a shooting still has to be cleared.
Police did not know with absolute certainty that every threat had been removed.
Rooms were checked.
Hallways.
Stairs.
Doors.
The team moved upstairs.
Toward the bathroom.
Then they found her.
Lizette was on the floor.
Beside her were five spent 9mm casings.
There was blood.
She was dead.
The rescue operation was over.
It had become a murder investigation.
For nearly two hours, officers had been working under the possibility that a wounded woman might still be alive somewhere inside the house.
Now they knew.
She had not survived.
The friends outside who had begged officers to rush in had feared exactly this outcome.
The children had feared it too.
And the officers themselves now faced a question that follows many prolonged standoffs.
Could anything have been done differently?
If police had entered earlier, would Lizette have lived?
There is no simple answer available in the source.
Police had arrived facing active gunfire.
One officer had nearly been struck.
The drone had been shot down.
Jose was armed and refusing surrender.
A premature entry could have added police officers to the casualty list.
At the same time, waiting always carries its own cost when an injured victim remains unreachable.
These are not decisions made with knowledge of the future.
Officers had to act using the information available at each moment.
By the time they reached Lizette, however, the outcome was irreversible.
She was gone.
Jose at the Police Station
While officers processed the house, Jose was transported to the police department.
The man who had held an entire neighborhood in place now sat inside an interrogation room.
Investigators still needed answers.
Why?
What happened before the shooting?
Had he planned it?
What did he believe Lizette had done?
Why did he fire at police?
The language issue remained.
A Spanish translator was required.
While waiting, Jose lay across the interrogation-room table.
The source narrator interprets his body language as appearing as though he viewed himself as the injured party.
Body language alone should not be treated as proof of motive.
But once the translator arrived, Jose began explaining what had been happening in the marriage.
Much of what he said aligned with what his daughter had already told police.
For approximately two weeks, Jose had been convinced Lizette was having an affair.
He placed a recording device.
He wanted evidence.
According to Jose, he later heard another man's voice.
To him, that voice confirmed what he already suspected.
The suspicion intensified.
Lizette was preparing for her California work trip.
The conflict escalated.
Then Jose shot her.
Most importantly, he admitted the shooting.
But one part of his account was particularly revealing.
Afterward, Jose said he did not retrieve the weapon from the bathroom.
Why?
He did not want to look at Lizette.
That statement placed him directly inside the aftermath.
He knew where she was.
He knew what he had done.
And instead of helping her, he stayed elsewhere in the house while police surrounded him.
The Recording Device
The recording device is one of the most important details because it shows how far Jose's jealousy had allegedly progressed before the shooting.
This was no longer simply:
"Who were you talking to?"
According to both the daughter and Jose's later account, he had begun collecting information.
Monitoring.
Listening.
Trying to prove betrayal.
The source does not establish whether Lizette was actually having an affair.
That distinction is important.
What matters to the criminal timeline is what Jose believed and what he chose to do.
Suspicion is not evidence.
And even if an affair had existed, it would not justify violence.
But in Jose's account, the recording became emotionally significant.
He believed he heard another man's voice.
That belief fed the story already forming in his mind.
Lizette was cheating.
The work trip became suspicious.
Her boss became suspicious.
Her behavior became suspicious.
Every new fact could be interpreted through the belief he already held.
Then jealousy escalated into control.
Control escalated into violence.
And violence escalated into a standoff involving dozens of police officers.