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From the North County (San Diego area) Observer, Diana Estrada describes her husband, who had just returned on leave from Iraq:
On Friday, Diana Estrada, 20, wore a gray Army T-shirt as she sat in her Murrieta apartment and talked about her husband. She said they met about two years ago when both were at the same California National Guard unit in Bell. She's been with the Guard for about 2 1/2 years and her husband enlisted about seven years ago, she said.Spc Estrada deployed to Iraq with his unit, where his commander described his performance as "incredible". He was able to return on leave in time for the birth. No surprise his commander also called him "an outstanding soldier and a great man" who "set the example of a husband and a father.""He tried to talk to me for a while after we met, but I was playing hard to get," she said with a slight smile. Her eyes lit up as she continued.
"Eventually he grew on me. He really made me laugh," she said, and they started dating July 18 of last year. They were married in December.
"He always helped people. He was the nicest person you could ever imagine and had such a big heart," Diana Estrada said.
Her husband's kindness and compassion was evident when he learned that she was pregnant, but the baby wasn't his.
"We didn't talk for a couple of days," she said.
"But then he told me he wanted to be with me ---- no matter what. Even if the baby was not his blood, he said he would take care of her as if his own," she said.
About a month after Jorge Estrada found out the baby wasn't his, Fabian Urrea found out he was the father, Diana Estrada said.But he went with her to the parking lot anyway, and there he was shot three times."(Fabian) knew about Jorge and me," she said. "He wasn't OK with Jorge and I being together."
Urrea called her early Thursday "demanding to see the baby," she said.
"He told me if he could just see the baby for a while that he'd leave me alone," Estrada said.
She got a call from Urrea later Thursday morning in which he said he was downstairs. Estrada said she told her husband that she'd be OK and to just watch from the balcony when she took Liliana to the parking lot so Urrea could see the baby.
A court document obtained by The Californian on Friday detailed Urrea's alleged actions that led to Jorge Estrada's death.Fabian Urrea is still at large:Murrieta police Detective Danny Martin wrote in the document that Jorge Estrada and Urrea began arguing about the infant. Urrea then pulled a concealed chrome handgun from his waistband and shot Jorge Estrada three times, Martin wrote. Police believe he used a 9mm semiautomatic handgun.
According to the court document, Urrea then said something similar to: "I told you, I told you so. I told you I was gonna get you."
Jorge Estrada was shot twice in the chest and once in the stomach, the document states. He was pronounced dead at 8:20 a.m. at Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar.
Law enforcement officers are still looking for Urrea, who they say fled the shooting scene in a white 1997 Nissan extra cab pickup with a California license plate of 7J26810.It might be best for him if the police catch him before Major K's unit returns from Iraq.He is described as Latino, 5 feet 8 inches tall, 145 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. His head was shaved, police said.
Detectives did not find the weapon at the crime scene and believe Urrea probably still has it with him.
Police ask that anyone with information about Urrea's whereabouts call Murrieta police at (951) 696-3615.
