Trisha Fernández was shot to death by her boyfriend (PHOTOS)

• Trisha Lynn Fernández was shot to death by her boyfriend after an argument
• Aaron Butler, a military man and Fernández’s boyfriend, also committed suicide after killing the girl.
• Trisha Lynn Fernández is remembered by her family for having “a beautiful smile and a heart of gold.”

Trisha Lynn Fernández was shot and killed in Oklahoma by her boyfriend with whom she had a complicated relationship. The Del City Police Department (DCPD, for its acronym in English) announced the death of the young Trisha Lynn Fernández who died in an incident that was classified as an act of domestic violence during her courtship.

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The young Trisha Lynn Fernández, 22, was shot dead in Del City, a city east of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, on Monday, September 20, 2021 by the gun of her boyfriend Aaron Butler, 23 years old. However, the crime has already been closed for the authorities as Butler himself also killed himself after murdering his girlfriend.

Trisha Fernández was shot and killed by her boyfriend

The murder of the young Trisha Lynn Fernández has caused deep pain and indignation among the Hispanic community of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area since the girl suffered a dating relationship with Aaron Butler that was in constant conflict, according to the authorities, for various reasons.

With the suicide of Aaron Butler after killing his girlfriend Trisha Lynn Fernández with bullets, it will never be possible to know the reasons that the man had for attacking the girl. Fernández’s family remembered her for having “a beautiful smile and a heart of gold” according to the testimony of her cousin Josephine Figueroa.

They find two young men wounded by gunshots

According to the report of the DCPD Homicide Division, last Monday night, September 20, a person called the corporation’s emergency number to report that he had just found two young men wounded by gunshots in the house marked with the 4700 Loch Lane in Del City, Oklahoma.

The report from the agents of the DCPD Homicide Division does not detail who called the authorities to report the finding of Trisha Lynn Fernández and Aaron Butler wounded by gunshots. However, when the first patrolmen arrived at the crime scene, they could no longer do anything for the couple and they were pronounced dead at the scene.

They could no longer do anything to help the injured

The first patrolmen who arrived at the scene to find Trisha Lynn Fernández and Aaron Butler already dead asked the agents of the DCPD Homicide Division at the scene to investigate the case that, at first, was classified as two homicides.

During the investigations at the crime scene and based on the forensic expert reports, the agents of the Homicide Division of the DCPD were able to determine that Aaron Butler first shot at his girlfriend Trisha Lynn Fernández, who failed to offer resistance, and then pointed the gun against himself and fired.

Aaron Butler was an active duty military man

The house in which Trisha Lynn Fernández and Aaron Butler died is a few blocks from the Tinker Base of the United States Air Force and in the homicide document it is detailed that the boy was “an active military man.” However, it is not specified if the branch to which he belonged was that of the air force.

In the investigation of the case in the death of the young Trisha Lynn Fernández, the agents of the Homicide Division of the DCPD discovered that the relationship between her and her murderer Aaron Butler was conflictive. Hours before the death of both, the couple had a fight that escalated violently and ended in murder. With that the case was closed.

Trisha Fernández was a “vivacious young lady”

Josephine Figueroa, cousin of the murdered girl, opened the account In Memory of Trisha Lynn Fernández (In memory of Trisha Lynn Fernández) on the social network Go Fund Me to ask for economic solidarity from the community so that the girl’s family can face the economic expenses caused by the tragedy.

Words cannot express the shock and pain we are experiencing after learning of the sudden and tragic passing of my cousin Trisha. She was a vivacious, fun-loving young woman, full of promise, and a great spirit always ready to bring others closer to show that she cared, ”wrote Figueroa.

“Beautiful daughter, affectionate sister and a kind friend”

Trisha Lynn Fernández was, according to the testimony of her cousin Josephine Figueroa, a “beautiful daughter, affectionate sister and a kind friend dear to many” she said in the midst of pain to remember her first murder by her boyfriend Aaron Butler in a case that has shocked the community in Oklahoma City.

Figueroa explained that Trisha Lynn Fernández’s family tries to “reconstruct the events that led to that fateful night” but at the same time they realize “that we may never know what led to such a senseless loss of life,” he said in his message.

“Only God … will know the truth”

“We know that there can be a lot of information about this heartbreaking situation, and many of us may have our own ideas of what could have happened, but we remember that only God and those directly involved will know the truth,” wrote Josephine Figueroa about the mystery in the death of Trisha Lynn Fernandez.

Trisha Lynn Fernández’s cousin cried out for help as Trisha Lynn Fernández’s family after the tragedy was left “in a huge financial burden” and humbly requested “any monetary help … to take her home” with the rest of her family in California to rest in peace.

Trisha Fernández yet another victim of gun violence

The murder of Trisha Lynn Fernández and the suicide of Aaron Butler are yet another link in gun violence. The non-profit organization National Archive of Gun Violence, which fights to raise awareness about the dangers of free sale of firearms, reports that 31,964 people have died so far this year.

As of Sunday, September 19, 2o21 of those people who have been shot dead in the United States, a total of 14,672 were murdered and 17,292 committed suicide. 29,481 were injured. The country already lived in the first half of the year 508 mass shootings, where several people died in the same event.

The pandemic of domestic violence in the United States

According to the nonprofit organization National Statistics on Domestic Violence (NCADV), the United States is experiencing a true pandemic of aggression, at various levels, against someone by their partner. Every minute, according to NCADV, 20 people are attacked by their partner in some way.

In the United States, one in four women and one in nine men are constantly subjected to violent abuse, causing physical injury, emotion, trauma and anguish for the rest of their lives and even homicide. Women between the ages of 18 and 24, almost always in their first serious relationship, are the most vulnerable and report the most cases.

There is help for Hispanic victims

The death of Trisha Lynn Fernández at the hands of her ex-partner is within the national context of domestic violence cases. According to the non-profit organization National Domestic Violence Hotline, one in four women in the United States suffers from an abusive relationship with her partner.

According to the same organization, every minute an average of 24 people, men and women, suffer some type of violence, rape, harassment and intimidation by their partners. That makes a total of 12 million people a year being victims of domestic violence, as in the case of Trisha Lynn Fernández.