On November 4, 2019, 42-year-old Jose Jesus Moncivais of Dayton, Texas, was shot and killed at his home on County Road 685 in south Liberty County after a domestic altercation. Deputies arrived after Clarissa Moncivais called 911 to report that her son had just shot her husband and found Jose Moncivais deceased from a gunshot wound to the head.

Fabian Makell Miranda, 22, Jose Moncivais’ stepson, told authorities he had fired in self-defense as Moncivais was allegedly beating his mother. Liberty County Sheriff’s Lead Investigator Travis Pierce reported that the evidence did not support Miranda’s claim, and Miranda was charged with murder and held in the Liberty County Jail. An inquest at the scene and an autopsy ordered by Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace Larry Wilburn were completed.