What began as a personal conflict tied to an ex-couple ended with a fatal shooting, a child inside the home and a murder case moving through court.
HEWITT, Texas — On a residential stretch of Saddle Horn Drive, police say a domestic conflict tied to an ex-wife, her boyfriend and her former husband ended in a burst of gunfire that left one man dead and another facing a murder charge.
The story has drawn attention because of how quickly a private dispute turned into a homicide investigation. Authorities say the people involved knew one another, the shooting happened outside a home and the defendant immediately cast the violence as self-defense. But the legal record shows a more complicated picture, one that includes prior messages, travel to the house, a child inside the residence and an alleged remark afterward that investigators may use to challenge the self-defense claim.
For the neighborhood, the first sign of trouble was noise. Dispatchers received reports shortly before 9 p.m. that about 10 rounds had been fired. Officers arriving at the block found George Armando Turrubiartez Sr., 54, outside with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police later said a juvenile was inside the home but was not injured. They also said the danger did not appear to extend beyond the people directly involved. That initial description mattered in a city like Hewitt, where violent crime scenes can feel especially jarring because they unfold in spaces built around routine life: parked cars, front lawns, porch lights and nearby homes where other families are finishing dinner or settling in for the night.
Investigators then worked backward through the relationships at the center of the case. In warrants cited by news outlets, a woman identified as Turrubiartez’s live-in girlfriend and Enriquez’s ex-wife told detectives that Turrubiartez had become upset after reading a text exchange between her and Enriquez. She said he left her residence, and she later saw from location tracking that he seemed to be headed toward Enriquez’s house. That account gave police a possible chain of events before the shooting ever happened. It also placed the confrontation inside an intimate triangle of past and present relationships rather than a random street encounter. Enriquez, according to the affidavit, told detectives he was also aware of the coming confrontation because he had been receiving calls and text messages from Turrubiartez saying he planned to come over.
By Enriquez’s account, the final approach to the house confirmed what he feared. He told investigators he watched a surveillance camera and saw Turrubiartez arrive in a Chrysler 300. Enriquez then went outside to meet him. In the affidavit, investigators quoted Enriquez as saying it was clear Turrubiartez had come there to start an altercation. Enriquez said the victim uttered an obscenity, and then he fired. Officers said Enriquez emerged after the shooting with his hands up and told them he had defended his home. The affidavit says he told police the victim had threatened him and that he had the right to protect himself. What remains unknown from the public record is what physical movement, if any, came next from Turrubiartez before the shots were fired and whether any witness or camera captured those final seconds clearly enough to settle the dispute.
The physical aftermath offered its own hard facts. Police said Turrubiartez had been shot multiple times in the chest and abdomen and once in the head. The charging documents described the weapon as an “assault rifle.” Enriquez allegedly told police he did not know how many shots he fired, then said he went back into the house, unloaded the gun and placed it on a couch. Investigators later obtained search warrants for the residence and the victim’s vehicle and collected evidence. To prosecutors, those details may help build a sequence rooted in forensics and scene reconstruction. To the defense, they may still fit a narrative of perceived danger outside a home. The same facts can carry very different meanings once lawyers begin arguing not just what happened, but what Enriquez reasonably believed in the instant he pulled the trigger.
The case moved from the street to the courthouse in early March, when a McLennan County grand jury indicted Enriquez on one count of murder. He remains in the McLennan County Jail on $750,000 bond. According to the arrest affidavit, one of the most damaging statements attributed to him came after officers told him he would be charged: that Turrubiartez “shouldn’t have been there” and that “he would do it again.” A defense attorney told local media he is reviewing discovery and preparing the case. No public record reviewed for this article showed a trial date. What comes next is likely to include routine hearings, evidence exchange and legal arguments over whether the confrontation at the house can support a self-defense theory under Texas law.
The shooting no longer belongs only to the people at the center of the dispute; it is now a public case with a dead man, a defendant in jail and a neighborhood that became a crime scene in minutes. The next significant step is a district court proceeding in McLennan County, where lawyers will begin testing how much of the story can be proved and how much remains contested.
Author note: Last updated April 2, 2026.