Stepfather’s family from Texas was shot and “harassed” by friends of alleged killer, his wife says

The family of a Texas stepfather who was tragically shot is now facing fresh heartache as the victim’s wife says her daughter is being “harassed” by friends of the alleged killer.

Osvaldo Casas, a 37-year-old father of three, was fatally shot outside his Houston home on August 10 when he confronted a “suspicious person” – later identified as 17-year-old Cristian Gasca Martinez, according to police.

The suspect was arrested more than two months after the alleged killing.

Casas, who was expecting a baby boy with his wife Judith Molina, died “while bravely protecting our family,” she wrote on the family’s GoFundMe page, which she set up to support the funeral and the family.

“I would like to thank you again very much for your generous donations. All future donations will go toward child care for my newborn and possibly moving as my daughter is being harassed by the killer’s friends,” she wrote in an update.

The deadly confrontation was allegedly sparked by Casas’s teenage stepdaughter repeatedly rejecting Martinez’s advances.

“The defendant shot the complainant in retaliation for being rejected by the complainant’s 16-year-old daughter, whom the defendant had been stalking,” according to court documents, according to KTRK-TV.

“He was just mad because she didn’t want to go out with him. That she didn’t want to do anything with him,” Molina told KHOU-TV over the weekend. “So he stalked her – our house for days – which I didn’t know about.”

Martinez was charged with murder.

He is being held on $200,000 bond and is due in court in December, according to jail records.

As of this writing, the family’s GoFundMe page has raised $28,495 of the announced $30,000 goal.

Originally published on Lawyer Herald.