http://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article209869344.htmlAs Clarissa Riojas, 18, finished up her senior year at Highlands High School in San Antonio, her friends urged her to get out of the abusive relationship she was trying to salvage.
Finally, last week, she listened. And her life was cut short for it, according to police.
She broke up with Louis Nickerson, 19, a football player at the same high school. She had not been answering his repeated calls since the break-up, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said in a news conference Wednesday.
Wednesday at about 8 a.m., Nickerson brought a gun to the apartment on the Southeast Side of town at which Riojas and her younger sister were staying. First, he tried to shoot through the lock on the front door.
When he got inside, he shot Riojas to death, then slipped out of the apartment while her sister called 911. He shot and killed himself in a nearby wooded area, McManus said.
Police involved in the massive manhunt for Nickerson found him lying just a few hundred yards from the apartment
Angela Zetina, a friend of Nickerson's, told the Express-News it was known in school circles that the couple's relationship was a dysfunctional one.
"It was just so toxic," Zetina told the newspaper.
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