Valencia woman shot dead, man injured

Nan­cy Al­mar­ales, a 50-year-old moth­er from Daniel Trace, Va­len­cia, was shot and killed last night.

Al­mar­ales re­ceived mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds to her body and died in­stant­ly. Ken­rick Charles, 50, al­so of Daniel Trace, was shot in the chest and re­mains un­der ob­ser­va­tion at the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty.

Po­lice of­fi­cers who re­spond­ed were PC Rat­tans­ingh, WPC Gon­za­les, and PC Ear­le.

Re­ports in­di­cate that at around 11:55 pm on Sat­ur­day, PC Ear­le was on sen­try du­ty at the front of the Va­len­cia Po­lice Post when he ob­served a white Nis­san AD Wag­on, reg­is­tra­tion PCP 6622, dri­ve along the foot­path in front of the post and come to a stop. He saw the dri­ver ex­it the ve­hi­cle, walk to­wards the po­lice post en­trance, and col­lapse.

PC Ear­le called for as­sis­tance, and PC Rat­tans­ingh and WPC Gon­za­les re­spond­ed. The of­fi­cers found the man ly­ing on the pave­ment with in­juries to his chest. Checks of the ve­hi­cle re­vealed Al­mar­ales slumped in the front pas­sen­ger seat with no signs of life.

The dri­ver, Kevin Charles, told po­lice that at around 11:30 pm, he picked up a woman at Va­len­cia Junc­tion who hired him to take her home at Clarence Trace, col­lect mon­ey, and re­turn her to Va­len­cia Junc­tion. Af­ter drop­ping her off, he drove a short dis­tance to turn around. On re­turn­ing to pick her up, sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions were heard. In an at­tempt to es­cape the shoot­ing, Charles sped off. He felt a burn­ing sen­sa­tion in his chest and drove to the Va­len­cia Po­lice Post, where he col­lapsed.

The dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer viewed Al­mar­ales’ body and or­dered its re­moval to San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal for a post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion.

The scene was processed by CSI of­fi­cers, and the Arou­ca Homi­cide Bu­reau con­tin­ues its en­quiries.