Loud music blamed for murder of Texas father – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Thanksgiving will never be the same for a Fort Worth family after a husband and father of two was found dead in his driveway.

The discovery occurred on Davis Avenue near Mississippi Avenue.

Oscar “Beto” Lopez’s widow says he was killed by a neighbor who was upset about his loud music.

“It’s supposed to be a happy time and I can’t be happy right now,” said Amanda Fernicola.

Fernicola says Lopez was returning home with food for his family around 10 p.m. Sunday when gunshots were heard outside the house.

She says she saw Lopez’s truck but didn’t see him.

“I go out the back door as I’m calling him and as I’m walking towards the truck I can see his legs on the ground and for some reason I really thought it was a joke. I didn’t believe it was real,” Fernicola remembers.

According to Fort Worth police, Lopez was found dead in the driveway and the suspect, Caspian Swinney, was seen leaving a nearby home and arrested.

Investigators say Lopez and Swinney got into a verbal and then physical argument when Swinney fired a handgun several times.

“If they tell you the saying about screaming bloody murder, I literally did that that night. I literally screamed and screamed and screamed,” Fernicola said.

Fernicola says her surveillance cameras captured the moments before the shooting, when Lopez pulled into the driveway for the last time.

“In the videos you can hear the music and turn it off, and if you listen closely it sounds like he’s saying, ‘Can you turn it down?'” Fernicola explained.

She says Swinney has complained before about loud music in the neighborhood.

“He got upset about the music on my birthday, and when I found out it was our neighbor, I think that was it,” Fernicola said. Lopez leaves behind a five-year-old son, a three-and-a-half-month-old son and a widow who is in disbelief that her husband isn’t coming home.

Swinney is in the Tarrant County Jail on murder charges.

His attorney did not immediately respond to NBC 5’s request for comment.