On July 4, 2012, in Raleigh, North Carolina, 37-year-old Marisol Mendoza Rojas was fatally shot at the family home on Manor Plantation Drive. Reports state the shooter was her husband, 47-year-old Fernando Palma Carias. The couple lived there with their twin 15-year-old sons; one son witnessed the shooting while the other escaped through a window to get help from a neighbor. After the shooting, Carias fled but later contacted a Wake County sheriff’s investigator assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration and agreed to surrender.

At the arranged meeting he threatened suicide before being persuaded to give himself up by his attorney. He was charged with first-degree murder. The couple were described locally as hard-working business owners who operated check-cashing services and Hispanic food stores, and their relationship had reportedly been strained in part over Rojas’s refusal to marry.

Does anyone have information about the family, the businesses, or what happened that night?