“You will rot in a prison cell until, hopefully, you have a long, drawn-out, painful death and face the hell you have coming Nestor Hernandez”
Dec 25, 2023
Thomas W
Have you ever witnessed the domino effect of unchecked emotions leading to catastrophic consequences? That's the chilling core of our latest episode, where we peel back the layers of a tragic story from Dallas—a tale of jealousy, distrust, and fatal decisions. Nestor Hernandez's descent into violence at a hospital postpartum unit, culminating in the deaths of a social worker and a nurse, holds a mirror to the darkest parts of human nature. We walk through the haunting sequence of events, from Hernandez's volatile entrance with alcohol to the deadly confrontation, offering an intimate understanding of the psyche behind such a devastating act.
As we navigate through the thick tension of a room where anger and accusations fly, the air is heavy with the weight of a man's past and the burden of his present. A former convict struggling with new fatherhood and insecurities, Hernandez's story unfolds moment by moment, leading to a heart-stopping encounter that changes lives in an instant. You'll hear the raw emotion in his voice as he retraces his steps, his declarations of love, and the sudden altercation that resulted in an irreversible tragedy. This episode isn't just about recounting facts; it's about diving into the human condition and the precipice where control slips away.
The final chapter of our conversation takes you through the whirlwind aftermath of a panicked shooting. Imagine the internal chaos comparable to the regret of smashing a family treasure, the frantic calls to loved ones, the split-second decision between surrender and the instinct to flee—all while grappling with the reality of a life lost and another hanging in the balance. As we reflect on the 2022 Dallas Shooting and the sentencing of Hernandez, we acknowledge the void left behind and the questions that may never be answered. Join us for this profound exploration of a moment where life veered into darkness and the search for meaning in the face of the unfathomable.
Have you ever witnessed the domino effect of unchecked emotions leading to catastrophic consequences? That's the chilling core of our latest episode, where we peel back the layers of a tragic story from Dallas—a tale of jealousy, distrust, and fatal decisions. Nestor Hernandez's descent into violence at a hospital postpartum unit, culminating in the deaths of a social worker and a nurse, holds a mirror to the darkest parts of human nature. We walk through the haunting sequence of events, from Hernandez's volatile entrance with alcohol to the deadly confrontation, offering an intimate understanding of the psyche behind such a devastating act.
As we navigate through the thick tension of a room where anger and accusations fly, the air is heavy with the weight of a man's past and the burden of his present. A former convict struggling with new fatherhood and insecurities, Hernandez's story unfolds moment by moment, leading to a heart-stopping encounter that changes lives in an instant. You'll hear the raw emotion in his voice as he retraces his steps, his declarations of love, and the sudden altercation that resulted in an irreversible tragedy. This episode isn't just about recounting facts; it's about diving into the human condition and the precipice where control slips away.
The final chapter of our conversation takes you through the whirlwind aftermath of a panicked shooting. Imagine the internal chaos comparable to the regret of smashing a family treasure, the frantic calls to loved ones, the split-second decision between surrender and the instinct to flee—all while grappling with the reality of a life lost and another hanging in the balance. As we reflect on the 2022 Dallas Shooting and the sentencing of Hernandez, we acknowledge the void left behind and the questions that may never be answered. Join us for this profound exploration of a moment where life veered into darkness and the search for meaning in the face of the unfathomable.
Welcome to another episode of Human Wreckage. This episode we are talking about Nester Hernandez. How jealousy and mistrust can ruin lives around you. Maybe Nester's insecurities should have been checked at the door when he is visiting his newborn. Let's get into it.
Speaker 1:
Dallas, texas police and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Nester Hernandez was out on parole for aggravated robbery and had an ankle monitor, but he had permission to be at the hospital. But when Hernandez entered Selena Villatoros room in the hospital's postpartum unit with a beer in hand, she said she became upset. Villatoros said Hernandez seemed intoxicated and began calling his brother and his nieces telling them he loved them and to be good, all while the couple's newborn son slept in a bassinet in the same room. Hernandez then began opening up the closet door and searching the room, maybe looking for someone he thought was hiding, villatoros said. She said he threw a table which spilled his beer and hit Villatoros in the head with a gun. She said she didn't know he had with him. Villatoros said Hernandez told her to stop playing with him and told her they would both die and so would anyone else who came in the room. Then social worker Jacqueline Poquillot came in to perform a routine check on. Villatoros Hernandez walked behind Poquillot and shot her. That's when Villatoros said she fully believed Hernandez could kill her. He was just telling me to enjoy the time I had with my son.
Speaker 1:
Villatoros said Methodist hospital sergeant Robert Rangel, who was down the hall, told jurors he thought the initial gunshot was a light bulb bursting. He walked toward the sound to see what was wrong and heard a woman, later identified as Villatoros, screaming hysterically. Another shot rang out as Rangel and nurse Katie Annette Flowers approached the room, hitting Flowers. A third shot missed Rangel, he said he watched as Flowers clutched her neck, saying she had been hit, dripping blood on the floor. I told myself, if he came out with a pistol, I only had one option and that was to make sure that he didn't get out past the room with a gun, rangel said. Rangel then shot Hernandez once in the leg when he appeared in the doorway of Villatoros room During a roughly 10 minute standoff with police captured on Rangel's body camera, hernandez shouts at Villatoros to give him the baby while she cries for him to stop you.
Speaker 1:
Got a murder to trap it.
Speaker 3:
A man with a gun up here, dpd. I need him out here quick.
Speaker 2:
You Game, game edges Walking this person to Ly countries. Situations silĀ never zero zero six you Put the legs in the Leave insecurity.
Speaker 3:
Isn't he?
Speaker 2:
mad. Okay, hold on.
Speaker 3:
Open the door I gotrophepo. He's thứ longer.
Speaker 2:
He's not shere old. Keep going. The floor is clogged up. Where is he? I'm trying to look at him, man C'mon ma'am. I'll be arrested. Come out of the room right now.
Speaker 1:
Come out of the room, get your hands where we can see him.
Speaker 2:
Come out of the room. Come on, come on, I'm looking, I'm trying to Get your hands by your sides.
Speaker 1:
I'm moving in.
Speaker 2:
I'm moving in.
Speaker 3:
He doesn't have no good, he doesn't have no good Get out of the way. Can you move, man, I'm trying.
Speaker 2:
You got gloves, I got gloves, let's move in.
Speaker 1:
Let's come here. I'll help the guy first.
Speaker 3:
Ready Right this way.
Speaker 1:
Keep breathing, bro, you're doing okay, you're going to be all right, man, they're just going to control your bleeding. Okay, just hang in there, man.
Speaker 2:
Your baby needs to be okay. Your baby needs to hang in there. Hang in there, man.
Speaker 1:
But Villatoro also begged for police not to shoot Hernandez. She testified it was because she had seen too much bloodshed already. That was my baby, daddy Villatoro said. I still had my son and I didn't want them to kill Hernandez either. Once Villatoro managed to throw Hernandez's gun out into the hallway, officers carried Hernandez out of the room and began treating his gunshot wound. She cheated on me, he said In cross-examination. Johnson alluded to Hernandez and Villatoro previously getting an arguments about her alleged infidelity, but she denied Paternity.
Speaker 1:
Test results presented for the jury showed Hernandez was the newborn's father, kevin Bonsu, an engineer living in Boston, and Pocowa's brother also took the witness stand. Bonsu said they were a family of seven siblings. He said Pocowa came to the US from Ghana in 1998 and ultimately went on to get a master's degree in social work. Bonsu lived in Mansfield and had been working as a social worker at Methodist Dallas for about a year before her death. Bonsu said she leaves behind a 13-year-old son who went to live in Ghana after his mother died. Kelly Flowers, katie Flowers' daughter, told jurors her mom had been a nurse for 41 years and had spent 15 years working at Methodist Dallas. Katie Flowers leaves behind three other children and four grandchildren. Her 30-year-old daughter said Defense attorneys had asked jurors to consider a lesser charge, acknowledging that Hernandez opened fire but saying he didn't mean to kill anyone.
Speaker 1:
Taking the stand at the trial, hernandez admitted to shooting the two women but said it was an accident. Dallas County District Attorney John Cruzot told jurors that Hernandez went to the hospital that day with rage, resentment, anger and a plan to kill. Prosecutor George Lewis said Hernandez was motivated by a belief that his girlfriend had cheated on him and he wasn't the baby's father. No-transcript. Prosecutors presented evidence that he was. Would you state?
Speaker 3:
your name please.
Speaker 2:
Mr Hernandez. Mr Hernandez, how personal are you? I'm 31.
Speaker 3:
31 years old. Yes, sir, and can you tell us where you were born?
Speaker 2:
United States.
Speaker 3:
Where in West City?
Speaker 2:
Dallas, Texas and where were you raised? Dallas, Texas. Did you go to school here in the Dallas area?
Speaker 3:
Yes, sir, ok, did you attend high school here for at least a time in the Dallas area.
Speaker 2:
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3:
And what high school was that?
Speaker 2:
WTY High School Mr.
Speaker 3:
Hernandez, I'm having a little bit of trouble here and I want you to speak up, so I want the jury to make sure that you're here. As you have to say, you didn't complete high school, is that correct? No, sir, once you got it once you put it in high school. Could you give the jury an idea of what you've done for the last 15 years or so?
Speaker 2:
of your life. Well, I was in prison and working.
Speaker 3:
Were you in a good mood or were you in a bad mood? What kind of mood?
Speaker 2:
were you in at that time? No, I was good. I was good. I just signed a birth certificate, put that last name on it and I was like OK, and tell the jury what happened once you got it inside that room.
Speaker 3:
that changed the whole situation.
Speaker 2:
Could you tell them what took place? Ok, well, I walked in my son. He was asleep in the basonet. I went in there you know brother's belly. I was like hey, little man. So I walked into the restroom, I used the restroom, I walked out, I proceeded to walk out. I started looking for the gun. I started looking for the gun. She was like what you looking for? I see the gun. And she was like why? And I said I got it sold. I said I talked to dude last night. He wants to buy it, and so she's like all right.
Speaker 3:
So I'm on my phone also.
Speaker 2:
You know what I'm saying. Like she said, I don't want to say I'm sentimental. I'm more of an expressionist or something. I like telling people that I love them and stuff. I'll drink a little bit or do some drugs. I'm like, hey, man, I love you. Man, glad you're in my life type. You got the aggressive people, then you got the lovers, I guess, or whatever.
Speaker 3:
And so well.
Speaker 2:
So when you sit there having this conversation, would you tell the jury what it was and made the police guard pull in the blanket over and reduce the talk with you? I don't recall her putting the blanket over. You don't recall her pulling the gun over it.
Speaker 3:
No, I don't. What do you recall happening when you were having?
Speaker 2:
this conversation with her, I ended up sitting down and I was like man, get the gun and stuff. And so I was like so I'm about to sign this birth certificate and leave, and so I'm texting my brother. My brother called me and I talked to him briefly my nieces and stuff. Well, we started out, we started talking. She's trying to talk to me. I was like shut the fuck up, don't talk to me. You know what I'm saying? Woo, woo, woo.
Speaker 1:
And she's like oh no, she started to.
Speaker 2:
She's like man you're drinking, and woo, woo, woo. And I was like man, I don't want to hear it, man, I'm not even drinking, like that. And she's like, nah, you're drinking, and woo. And I was like man, shut up. I was like you won't even talk to me. She was like, nah, you're not supposed to be in here drinking. And woo, woo. I was like don't, nobody even know this is a beer. It looks like an Arizona or something. And she was like, nah, man, she's like man, they're going to come in here and see you and whatever. And so I was like man, I was like bro, I don't even talk to me, bro. I was like, yeah, you really nasty. And she was like, what, you mean nasty? I was like, yeah, you really nasty, you know what I'm saying. And she was like well, and I said man. I said man, my shit hurt, bro, I'm just trying to be perfect, tip-tip-tip, getting off in a league. I'm just saying, man, I'm burning.
Speaker 3:
Your voice is dropping. Your voice is dropping, keep it up. So I'm curious.
Speaker 2:
It's I'm like man, it's my priority. It's really fucked up. And so she was like she's like man, she's like, nah, man, she's like I ain't fucking nobody and da, da, da, da. And so she gets on her phone you know what I'm saying? And I'm like yeah, you need to tell whoever you've been fucking with that you got that shit, you passing out that shit, and she what are you talking about? I never had an STD before before that, so I mean. I knew it was something wrong. I didn't know exactly what it was.
Speaker 3:
Why was it?
Speaker 2:
you who said it was wrong when I urinate. When I urinate, it hurts.
Speaker 3:
So y'all start. So you're talking about her messing with somebody else. Tell her that she needs to tell people that she's probably giving them an STD stay.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I don't know you mean cause she ain't gonna get on the phone. I was like you need to be calling them people and let them know you're passing out that shit, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:
What happened as a result of this conversation?
Speaker 2:
You said what happened to the result.
Speaker 3:
Tell me what happened next that y'all are having this?
Speaker 2:
conversation. Oh, the nurse, she walks in. So she walks in and Selina, she gets up and she's like hey, I need you to rest here, so when she gets up I get up with her.
Speaker 3:
Okay, now let's talk you right there Prior to any of this happening right here you're talking about? Have there been another nurse in there earlier that day that had come in and been in there for a few minutes and then left?
Speaker 2:
You recall that. No, sir.
Speaker 3:
Okay, so when you're talking about right now, you're talking about. A nurse came in. That's when Selina wanted to go to the restroom. Are you talking about the woman that ended up getting shot?
Speaker 2:
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3:
Okay, so you guys are having this conversation. It's going on up to that point in time. Had you ever threatened that you were?
Speaker 2:
gonna kill Selina or kill yourself? No, sir, no, no sir. Had you ever threatened to Selina that you were gonna kill anybody coming in that room? No, did you have any intention of arming anybody? No, I didn't.
Speaker 3:
Okay, tell the jury what happened and you just described that. You got to the point where the nurse came in the room. Selina wants to go to the restroom. Tell the jury what happened next?
Speaker 2:
Well, she gets up and I get up with her and she's walking. No, when the nurse came in she said you know good afternoon or good evening, and I said it back. And Selina gets up and she's like I need you to rest. She told the nurse I need you to rest. But I got up with her and so I was like why you didn't go to the restroom with your phone? And she's like she's out because. And then the nurse asked her, is everything okay? And I was like yeah, everything's okay. And then she said no, it's not. She's like I don't want him here, this ain't even his baby. So I slapped her. So when I slapped her, the nurse was like oh, and so then Selina hit me and we got into like whenever I got up.
Speaker 2:
I had the pistol on me too. You know what I'm saying. I had it. She ended up before that, but Selina had handed me the pistol, and so I had the pistol right here. It's a little pistol. So when I got up, I got up holding it too and she hit me. And so, you know, I kind of, like, you know, I had the pistol on my hand. I don't think the nurse knew I had the pistol on my hand, and so we got into like a little, a little brawl or whatever, and that's when I, you know, I hit her. I ended up hitting her with the pistol, and that's when the nurse the nurse, she was like stop. She got in between us and with my shirt that's the black shirt that I had on it was already kind of like over me, it was already, because she was like putting on the shirt too and so the gun went off. That's what. That's what.
Speaker 3:
And who was pulling?
Speaker 2:
on your shirt, selina, okay.
Speaker 3:
So you're wearing a shirt and while y'all, you guys, get into the pistol with the nurse there, she's pulling on your shirt.
Speaker 2:
You saying it's kind of a bunch of them now around your shoulder area. Yeah, the shirt she was putting on. I had a black thermal shirt on and then you said the gun went off.
Speaker 3:
You describe exactly what you mean when you say the gun.
Speaker 2:
How did it go off? The nurse tried to stop the fight. She got in between us and all she was like stop. And they said you know, the gun went off and we stopped, everything slowed down. I was kind of confused for a little bit. You know what I'm saying. And the first thing that Selena said she was like what did you do? And I was like no man, this is your fault. This is your fault, because the nurse, she was kind of like leaning forward and then she ended up falling back. Did you, did you intentionally shoot this nurse?
Speaker 3:
No, no no, no, no. Ok, how does she tell you? Explain to the jury how it was that this nurse ended up shot.
Speaker 2:
She got in between us. She got in between Whenever me and Selena got into it like a tussle got into it. She got in between us. She's the other. Stop and try to stop us. Did you point a gun at her with the intention of shooting the gun and killing her? No sir. Did you have any intention to cause a harm to this nurse? No sir.
Speaker 3:
And you said that once you shot her she was just kind of in a. You said she was kind of standing there and you looked like you were crouching a little bit. What do you just?
Speaker 2:
do. To describe it with your she like lean forward like this, Like she lean forward like this, and then she, she lean a little bit. It all happens so slowly. It went real slow and then she just ended up falling back.
Speaker 3:
She was leaning forward and then she ended up falling back.
Speaker 2:
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3:
What's the next thing you recall happening at that time?
Speaker 2:
A panic, A panic. I was like shit, shit, shit, shit. And Selena, she started screaming and she was like oh man, I couldn't even understand what she was saying. I opened up the door and I shot. I opened up the door with my right hand. I opened up the door and I shot out the door. Boom, boom twice. I shot out the door twice. Did you see anybody outside the door when you shot? No, I didn't even look outside, I just shot. What was the purpose of that? I was so panicked, I was. I was, I just shot somebody. You know what I mean. I was just, I was real panicked.
Speaker 2:
It was like how can I say this? Like an example would be like like if, like, if my mom, or like somebody's mom, has like a favorite coffee mug that she drinks coffee with every morning, and you drop it and you break it, and when you broke it, you, you, you panic, You're like, oh, and your mom was like, hey, what was that? And so you don't want her to see. You know what I mean? Like you don't want, you don't want her to see. You just panicked. I I tried like I guess, make another distraction or something. I I wasn't just really just, I wasn't thinking right. You know what I'm saying. I just wasn't After you fired.
Speaker 3:
After you opened the door and you fired a gun, did you actually see the second nurse?
Speaker 2:
in the hallway at that time. No, I didn't even see the second nurse in the hallway.
Speaker 3:
Still jury what happened after you shot that power on that power.
Speaker 2:
So I went back. You know, the nurse laid on the floor and Selena, she screamed and she was like, oh my gosh, and so it's, it's all hate that. I'm kind of panicking. You know what I'm saying? I'm like man, I'm like shit, shit, shit. And so I, selena, she said get help. And so I turned around. I went, I turned around, I walked out the door. I tried to walk out the door. I felt the heat just through my leg. Boom, and I, I stepped back, I jumped back into. I jumped back into the room and I looked down and I was like they shot me.
Speaker 1:
I was like damn they shot me.
Speaker 2:
You know what I'm saying. And so I went back. I went back into the room and I called my mom. I called her mom and she answered the phone. She was like yeah, and I was like hey, man, I was like man, I just shot somebody. Man, I just, I just I just kissed somebody man. She's laying on the floor and she, my mom. She's like what, what? And then she's like tell me, you're playing. I was like no, I'm not. And so I hung up the phone. I hung up the phone, I called my little brother. I called my little brother and he's like hey, I was like hey, man, I'm shot, I'm shot. And he's like what? And I was like man, I'm shot, they're about to come in and shoot and they're about to kill me, man. And he's like what? And he's like I don't understand. He's like hey, I was like man, they're gonna kill me. Man, I was like they're gonna kill me, they already shot me.
Speaker 2:
And so by now, selena has the baby. She had grabbed the baby at this time and she's holding the baby. And I'm like, hey, give me the baby, give me the baby. And she was like no, no, and I'm like give me the baby man. I was like give me the baby man, give me the baby, put him in the crib, because the crib the best thing that is by the restroom. And so I'm thinking. I was like man, they're about to come in here and start shooting. Man, they're about to shoot us. And she's like no, no, no, what are you asking her to do? Baby. Before I wanted to put them in the best in it and put them by the restroom, because I was like man, they're about to come in here, they already shot me. They're about to come in here and start shooting. What happened?
Speaker 2:
That point in time I started feeling the pain. At first I didn't feel the pain, but now I'm feeling it. I'm like ugh, you know what I'm saying. And so I went around the bed I don't know if I sat down in the closet or I sat down in the front of the closet and I was like shit. And Selena was like she's that, he's screaming. She's that he's screaming. And she's like what the fuck? What the fuck? I'm this lady. She write down man. I was like man. I was like man, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up. So I'm like I'm some senior and I'm like man. I said man, I'm bout you to go out there, I'm gonna just let him kill me, man. And she was like what I said.
Speaker 1:
I was like I'm not going back, I'm not going back.
Speaker 2:
I was like I'm not feeling spending rest of my life in jail and she's like, she's like what what I said, man? I'm feeling just let him kill me, man. And just didn't kill me. They already shot me and she started screaming. She spanked my name, she said Nass, turn. And then she held up my son and she was like he needs you. And I was like man, shit man. I was like man. I was like no man. I was like I can't go back. I can't go back, man. And so I try to get up.
Speaker 2:
So when I try to get up, I try to get up, I hear, oh no. Before that I hear the officer. He said something. I couldn't understand what he said and I'm like I can't hear you Cause she screaming. My little brother was still on the phone and he's like. Nester, nester, nester. He's like Nester Nester, hey man don't hurt the baby, don't hurt the baby.
Speaker 2:
And I was like I'm like nah, nah, nah, and so I'm like man, I'm like man, I finished the go out there, I'm finished that and kill me. So, selena, she was like, she was like no, no.
Speaker 2:
And so when she said, no, I try to get up, I went when I try to get up, it too. It was kind of hard to get up, so I'm trying to get up. And I was like I'm shot. And she didn't know I was shot at the time, but now she knew then cause she put my baby down. She was like you're shot. I was like I'm shot, man, I'm already shot. And so I was like man.
Speaker 2:
I finished the go out there man. I was like man, cause in my mind I thought he's like 15 cops out there ready, the cops in there, they gonna kill you. Yes, I still had it in my hand. She was telling me not to go out there. She's like no, she's like don't go out there. She's like wait, she was. I was like my friend got. She's like why are you going to do this, why are you going to do this? And I'm like man. I was like I don't want to go back to jail, bro, I ain't trying to go back to prison. I already spent most of my youth in there. And she's like he needs you, he needs you. And so she's like he needs you, he needs you.
Speaker 2:
And I was like I heard man I heard and after that I fell. That's from what I remember. I fell and that was it. I blanked out the rest of the stuff that on the video, with me being in the hallway and I didn't even know I had said she cheated on me. I also said I heard myself say come on, mom. I screamed out my brother's name too on the video. But other than that I don't remember nothing else. I don't remember nothing else. I woke up at Baylor Hospital like two days later and that's when I learned that Miss Flowers was also. I didn't even know she was dead.
Speaker 3:
Did you? You said that you woke up in the hospital and you found out at that point in time that two people had died as a result of this incident. Is that correct?
Speaker 2:
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3:
And one of those being this Jack, with the two of them had come into the room originally, as well as Katie Flowers, who was the nurse that was injured when you discharged that weapon out in the hallway.
Speaker 2:
You understand that now.
Speaker 3:
Yes sir, and still, we asked to show you the video. You remember, yes, exactly what took place in regards to the exact timing was a little bit awkward, didn't it? Excuse me, you that reminded you or that brought back the light some of the things that had occurred.
Speaker 2:
Oh, on the video.
Speaker 3:
Yeah yes, sir, yeah so you talked about it and again, mr, what you told this jury is you did not intentionally, annoyingly, kill these ladies.
Speaker 2:
No, no, I've never do that.
Speaker 3:
And you understand that as you sit here and you offer this explanation to the jury, they have to decide whether or not to believe any of your testimony. Understand that yes sir, and you tell them why it is that you believe that your testimony today is worthy of believe Because it's the truth.
Speaker 2:
You know, it's just what happened. I'm not gonna sit here and hide it and try to say that I'm innocent. You know what I'm saying, Because we're not.
Speaker 3:
But you understand and we've explained to you. There's a difference between shitting and killing somebody and knowing their intention or how to cause them their death by your reckless actions. You understand that.
Speaker 2:
Yes, sir, I never intended to kill anybody or hurt anybody.
Speaker 3:
I didn't, would you then take full responsibility for causing your death.
Speaker 2:
Yes, I do take responsibility. I'm not here to fight for my innocence.
Speaker 3:
Did you woke up in the hospital two days later and tell the jury how long you were in the hospital?
Speaker 2:
I want to say I was in the hospital like four days, about four days in the hospital.
Speaker 3:
And in terms of that, you were taking custody of Dallas County Sheriff's Department is that right?
Speaker 2:
Yes, sir, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:
Hernandez's girlfriend, selena Villatoro, testified that he accused her of infidelity and hit her with a pistol. She said he threatened to kill her himself and anyone who came into the room and when Pocuad then entered, hernandez shot her. Nester Hernandez, 31, was found guilty of capital murder in the October 2022 shooting deaths of Jacqueline Pocua, 45, a social worker, and Katie Annette Flowers, 63, a nurse at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. He received an automatic sentence of life without the possibility of parole. Prosecutors didn't seek the death penalty. Criminal District Court Judge Chica Enium ordered Nester Hernandez to serve a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for the slayings of social worker Jacqueline Pocua and nurse Katie Annette Flowers. Authorities announced Judge Enium handed down the mandatory sentence after a Dallas County jury found Hernandez guilty of capital murder for the October 2022 shooting. At the time this crime occurred, I vowed to see that justice was done and I am satisfied to say that's what we've accomplished. Dallas County Criminal District Attorney John Cruzotte said in a statement I say this knowing that justice is no replacement for these two innocent lives lost, nor does it repair the trauma inflicted on the staff, officers and other families at the hospital on that tragic day. However, we have ensured that Mr Hernandez will die in prison.
Speaker 1:
Family members read victim impact statements. You will rot in a prison cell until, hopefully, you have a long, drawn out, painful death and face the hell. You have coming. One of Flowers' nieces said you will live in a cell where your short, fat self will undoubtedly be made someone else's special friend, where every day they will have their way with you. Unfortunately for them, if the photos of your toddler size shoes have anything to say with it, they will be disappointed. Rot in hell. Thanks for joining me on this episode of Human Wreckage. That family statement sums it all up. What makes people do things like this? We might never know. Please subscribe and like our stuff. Take care of yourselves, thank you technologies.