Left: Korey Wilson (GoFundMe). Right: Lora Flores (Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office).
An Arizona woman has admitted to fatally shooting her boyfriend after locking him in his home and leaving him to die.
Lora Flores, 40, pleaded guilty last month to a manslaughter charge in the death of Korey Wilson, 40, online court records show.
The details outlined by Law&Crime in the probable cause statement narrated the events that took place on April 28, 2023. On that day, the Tempe police department received a distress call at 2:37 p.m. from Flores, who reported being involved in a physical altercation with her boyfriend of seven years, ultimately leading to her shooting him.
“I just shot him and f—ing left,” Flores said in the call as she was driving away from the residence, the document said.
When the 911 dispatcher asked her where her gun was at that moment, Flores said she “threw it off the side of the road” in an unknown location.
During the call, Flores expressed a sense of urgency by mentioning that she had divulged too much already and felt the need to contact her lawyer. She also disclosed to the dispatcher that the victim had physically assaulted her by choking her before the call abruptly ended.
Upon arrival at the residence, law enforcement officers discovered Wilson in a corridor, sustaining an apparent gunshot wound in the upper part of his body. The nature of the wound indicated that the bullet had traversed through the body, entering from one side and exiting from the other. However, it remained undetermined whether the bullet’s trajectory was from the front to the back or vice versa, as stated in the official document.
Just past where the victim was lying, police found damage from a bullet in a mirror attached to a wall in the hall. Detectives found one fired and one unfired cartridge in the kitchen and an apparent bullet strike in the living room wall. Another pair of fired and unfired cartridges were found in the front door area near the hallway leading to where the victim was found.
By pinging Flores’ phone, police tracked her down to her brother’s house in Chandler, about 14 miles southeast of Tempe, where she was taken into custody.
Flores had several old bruises on her arms and wrists, but no questions were asked of Flores as to how they got there after she said she wanted to speak with her attorney. On Flores’ chest was an old healing wound that had scabbed over, but no fresh injuries were seen, the probable cause statement said.
Police later learned that Flores had sent her brother and her sister-in-law text messages at noon that day asking to pick up her child from school since she had been drinking, according to the document.
At the scene of the crime, a friend of the victim told police Flores had been abusive toward Wilson, who had been looking for a way out of the relationship with Flores.
“The friend indicated the victim told them about Flores striking the victim with open hands and being verbally abusive towards the victim,” the probable cause statement said. “Within the last month, the victim told their friend something to the effect if they (victim) are found dead it was because she (Flores) shot them (victim).”
The victim’s brother elaborated about it on GoFundMe.
Flores is set to be sentenced on Feb. 28.
