Renee Francisca Dominguez was 38 when she was shot and killed on the evening of Friday, January 14, 2022, at a Dollar General on Pueblo’s east side. Her family and friends say she had been terrified in the weeks before her death, telling close contacts she feared she was going to die and reporting repeated stalking and abuse by her ex-boyfriend, Jerome Bustos.

Court filings show Renee sought legal protection, filing for a civil protection order on November 9 and receiving a temporary restraining order the next day. In that application she described a recent assault in which she went into the fetal position while he struck her with a closed fist, and she reported multiple violations of the order, including notes on her car, numerous texts, and him waiting at a gas station across from her work. Continuances delayed further court action until February 7.

The day after Renee’s murder, Bustos, identified by the Pueblo Police Department as the suspect, was found dead of an apparent suicide; no arrest was made in her killing. Renee is remembered as a mother to her son Miguel Salomon Trujillo, a daughter to Laverne Dominguez, and a Registered Medical Assistant who loved dancing and fishing. Does anyone have information about Renee’s threats or the violations of her protection order?