I didn't want to speculate because this is partly what my gut was telling me.
"The victimās mother, Nora Ann Gonzales, said Santos-Aviles and her husband, Adrian Aviles, had been separated for a couple of months. She said they were sharing parenting responsibilities for their son. The mother said neither of them had filed for divorce, a fact confirmed by a clerk at the Uvalde County courthouse.
Nora Gonzales, a retired school counselor in Uvalde, said her daughter was upset when she spoke to her by phone on Saturday night.
āShe was upset. She wanted her son, but it wasnāt her weekend,ā she said in an interview Thursday morning. āI knew she was pissed, and I went over there to try to calm her down.ā
Gonzales said she arrived at her daughterās home in the 200 block of Geraldine Avenue to find her burned.
āShe was asking me to put water on her hands,ā the mother recalled.
Asked if her daughter had set herself on fire, Gonzales said, āI donāt know. I donāt want to think thatās what happened, but I donāt know.ā
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