“Husband indicted for murder of wife in St. Cloud”

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – A man arrested earlier this year, accused of shooting and killing his wife in St. Cloud, was indicted Wednedsay on charges including first-degree murder, according to the Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office.

Jose Otero-Fontanez, 49, was arrested in August after police say a domestic dispute led to his wife’s shooting death, as well as Otero-Fontanez’s surrender to police after allegedly firing shots during a standoff.

Otero-Fontanez was formally indicted by a grand jury on a charge of first-degree murder with a firearm and two counts of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer, the state attorney’s office said in a news release.

Officers on Aug. 24 responded to a home along Nottel Drive regarding 911 calls about a domestic argument, according to the St. Cloud Police Department. Police were met with gunfire upon their arrival, the department said in an August news release, adding a drone also came under gunfire once it was inside of the time.

After a crisis negotiator managed to call Otero-Fontanez and talk him into surrendering, police entered the house and located the body of his wife — Lizvette Figueroa-Guzman — in a bathroom, according to the August release. Two children who were in the house at the time — an adult and a juvenile — were able to escape unharmed, the release states.