LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -A fight between a couple ended tragically when Las Vegas Metro police said the husband ran over his wife with her truck outside of a Mexican restaurant.
Alfonso Martinez-Billanueva, 55, was charged with murder hours after his wife, Piedad Perpa-Martinez, was struck in the parking lot of Bonito Michoacan at Decatur Boulevard and Twain Avenue.
Witnesses who saw the truck pull into the parking lot told police Perpa-Martinez was originally in the driver's seat, but got out and started screaming at a passenger to "Get out of my truck!"
According to an arrest report, the truck began moving forward as Perpa-Martinez continued to bang on the window, demanding to be let in.
"The driver made a sudden, abrupt right turn while accelerating aggressively, turning into Miss Martinez," police wrote in the report.
She was struck by the passenger side of the truck, fell to the ground and was run over.
Perpa-Martinez died a short time later at University Medical Center.
Police traced the truck back to the home the victim shared with Martinez-Billanueva on 11th street near Maryland Parkway.
An officer who questioned Martinez-Billanueva said he smelled of alcohol, and when asked to step outside the house, he replied, "Is this about my wife, she's crazy!"
Martinez-Billanueva said the couple spent the afternoon at a swap meet and went to dinner. They didn't start fighting, according to the report, until he refused to go to another bar and she accused him of cheating on her.
When questioned by detectives, Martinez-Billanueva said he didn't run over his wife and he could see her making obscene gestures when he left her in the parking lot.
But police said fibers from a sweater Perpa-Martinez was wearing were found in the truck's right rear wheel well.
Martinez-Billanueva is being held at the Clark County Detention Center.
Alfonso Martinez-Billanueva, 55, was charged with murder hours after his wife, Piedad Perpa-Martinez, was struck in the parking lot of Bonito Michoacan at Decatur Boulevard and Twain Avenue.
Witnesses who saw the truck pull into the parking lot told police Perpa-Martinez was originally in the driver's seat, but got out and started screaming at a passenger to "Get out of my truck!"
According to an arrest report, the truck began moving forward as Perpa-Martinez continued to bang on the window, demanding to be let in.
"The driver made a sudden, abrupt right turn while accelerating aggressively, turning into Miss Martinez," police wrote in the report.
She was struck by the passenger side of the truck, fell to the ground and was run over.
Perpa-Martinez died a short time later at University Medical Center.
Police traced the truck back to the home the victim shared with Martinez-Billanueva on 11th street near Maryland Parkway.
An officer who questioned Martinez-Billanueva said he smelled of alcohol, and when asked to step outside the house, he replied, "Is this about my wife, she's crazy!"
Martinez-Billanueva said the couple spent the afternoon at a swap meet and went to dinner. They didn't start fighting, according to the report, until he refused to go to another bar and she accused him of cheating on her.
When questioned by detectives, Martinez-Billanueva said he didn't run over his wife and he could see her making obscene gestures when he left her in the parking lot.
But police said fibers from a sweater Perpa-Martinez was wearing were found in the truck's right rear wheel well.
Martinez-Billanueva is being held at the Clark County Detention Center.