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Man charged after gunshot proves fatal to girlfriend

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Denis Omar Funez-Flores

Chief Deputy Steve Whitley, left, talks with Detective Eric Williams outside a home where a woman was shot Thursday afternoon. Photo by Shavonne Potts, Salisbury Post

Chief Deputy Steve Whitley, right, of the Salisbury Police Department, comforts a woman related to the victim who was shot Thursday afternoon. Salisbury Police officer Brad Jordan, is on the left. Photo by Shavonne Potts, Salisbury Post

Salisbury Police Detective Sherrie Curry, left, takes photos of vehicles outside a mobile home where a woman was shot to death. Photo by Shavonne Potts, Salisbury Post

Salisbury Police investigate a shooting at 165 Oakhurst Drive where a woman was killed. Photo by Shavonne Potts, Salisbury Post

Salisbury Police investigate a shooting Thursday at a mobile home on Oakhurst Drive where a woman was killed. Photo by Shavonne Potts, Salisbury Post

By Shavonne Potts

spotts@salisburypost.com

Salisbury Police charged a 26-year-old man Thursday with murdering his girlfriend in the mobile home they shared on Oakhurst Drive.

Denis Omar Funez-Flores is accused of shooting and killing Kendy Patricia Funez, 25, of 165 Oakhurst Drive.

Called to the home Thursday at 4:04 p.m., officers found the woman's body on a bed, with a gunshot wound to the face. There were signs of a struggle in the home.

Neighbors gathered outside the home, but few said they knew much about the woman.

Investigators called in an interpreter to help interview people in the largely Hispanic neighborhood on Oakhurst, located off Harrison Road.

Detectives said the shooting was a case of domestic violence, according to a police press release, and that alcohol was involved. Funez-Flores was charged with murder and jailed in the Rowan County Detention Center without bond. Detective E.C. Williams is the lead investigator in the case.

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