Cops: Man killed wife and shot 2 before gun jammed

A man killed his wife and shot two employees — one of whom may have survived because the shooter’s gun jammed — at an Orlando apartment complex Wednesday afternoon, according to police.

Officers were called to the Mill Creek Apartments on Commander Drive about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, arriving to find the two employees, 68-year-old Fabio Rodriguez and 40-year-old Julian Valencia Correa, who had each suffered multiple gunshot wounds, a police report said.

Witnesses identified the shooter as Pedro Martinez Jurado, 56, who had returned to his apartment. He was taken into custody and then to a local hospital to be treated for a bullet wound to his neck, the report said.

Officers found the body of his 61-year-old wife, Enma Idalia Contreras Cordero, in the apartment’s master bedroom. Cartridge casings and live rounds were littered through the apartment complex, and the glass panes of the front and rear doors to the clubhouse were shattered, the report said.

A detective interviewed Valencia Correa, who said he had been with Rodriguez inside a maintenance shop within the clubhouse when Martinez Jurado approached with a gun, took aim and started firing. Both men were wounded “several times,” the report said.

Valencia Correa told the detective he thought Martinez Jurado’s gun jammed, possibly saving Rodriguez’s life. Both workers fled into the clubhouse, taking shelter inside an office, the report states.

Pedro Martinez Jurado was arrested on charges of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm in the shootings of Rodriguez and Valencia Correa. in an update Thursday, police said he will also face a charge of first-degree murder with a firearm in the killing of his wife.

The motive for the violence remained unclear.

Martinez Jurado taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center to be treated for his wound. How he suffered it was also unclear; arrest paperwork indicated that “[N]o testimony or evidence suggested anyone other than Martinez had a weapon or handgun that would have presented a threat” to him.

He remained in the hospital Thursday.

Wednesday’s shooting was the 13th in Orange County in 11 days. Orlando police spokesman Cory Burkarth said it was the city’s 16th homicide of 2019, down from 33 at this point in 2018.