Daughter jailed in fatal shooting

A Balch Springs woman is behind bars after police say she killed her mother’s boyfriend earlier this year.

Faye Dee O’Brien, 23, faces a murder charge in the shooting death of Ricardo Salas Garcia. She was booked into the Dallas County jail Tuesday, with bail set at $500,000.

Police were called about 4:45 a.m. Jan. 6 to a home where the mother reported that her daughter shot the man and fled.

Officers found Salas Garcia dead in an upstairs bedroom with a shower curtain wrapped around his body, a trash bag over his head and shoulders and another trash bag over his lower legs. A Glock pistol was on the bed and cleaning supplies including bleach were in the bedroom, the affidavit says.

O’Brien’s mother, who police said didn’t seem “very forthcoming,” told officers she had heard a gunshot about 1 a.m., then saw O’Brien cleaning bloodstains off the carpet.

When asked by police why it took several hours to report the shooting, the mother said that she had “gone through a lot this year.”