Woman shot dead after husband flipped off aggressive driver on their way to work in Texas

A woman has been shot and killed in a road rage incident in Texas after her husband flipped off a driver on their way to work.

Paola Nunez Linares, 37, and her husband Zane Jones were driving near Fort Worth,  Texas, on Monday when she was shot in the back of the head after he rudely gestured to another motorist for driving 'aggressively.'

The grieving husband said that before the shooting, the couple had been behind someone who was driving slowly in the right lane, so they used the left lane to pass.

Another driver drove up to their Kia minivan's bumper and almost crashed into them before backing away.

'And I flipped them off,' said Jones, adding that, 'She [his wife] always told me not to flip people off because you never know.'

Zane Jones is pleading with the public for help in finding the driver who shot his wife Paola Nunez Linares dead after he flipped them off

Zane and the 37-year-old victim were driving to work near Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday when she was shot in the back of the head

 The grieving husband said he believed the other driver was also flipping him off, but then realized they were holding a gun. The shooting happened on the 1400 block of West Hurst Blvd, pictured above

Zane said he believed the other person was also flipping him off but then realized they were holding a gun.

The driver then slowed down and shot through the back left window of the minivan, hitting Paola in the back of the head. 

They then shot a second time with the bullet going through Zane's headrest and windshield.

'I need him caught, I need him prosecuted, I need him in prison. I need him to know he didn’t just fire a gun into a car, "the end,"' Jones told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.

'He killed someone who’s not like anyone... I want him to rot.'

Zane said he did not realize Paola had been hit until he pulled into a gas station to call 911 and noticed she wasn't ducking, but slumped and wounded.

Paola was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead that night. Zane's hands were tested for gun residue to rule him out as a suspect.

Police have yet to identify a suspect, and the shooter's car has only been described as a small, dark-colored older model car. 

The Hurst police department told DailyMail.com they still have no possible suspects or the model of the vehicle.

Speaking to DailyMail.com on Wednesday, Zane explained through tears his devastation that he did not get a better look at the shooter. 

Paola had just moved to the U.S. from Guatemala to be with Zane, who has four children

The couple, who wed about a year and a half ago, met on a Facebook group for the band Switchfoot in 2021

'I assume it's a male, and that's what I told the police - They asked me why and I said because he was a shooter. I just assume it's a male, but didn't see his face,' he said.

'It was already dark outside. We work night shifts.'

Paola had just moved to the U.S. from Guatemala to be with Zane, who shared that he had told his wife she would be safer in Texas than in her native country, where she had been robbed several times.

'He killed someone who fought so hard to be here, who loved my kids, that loved me, someone who's building a life and a career for herself,' the emotional widower said.

'Someone who had nothing to do with anything. Someone who was a passenger of the person he was mad at.'

The couple, who wed about a year and a half ago, met on a Facebook group for the band Switchfoot in 2021.

Zane said he wishes he could do more to find the person who killed Paola.

'All I saw were the car's headlights and the color was darker - I think,' he told DailyMail.com.

'But again, it was dark outside. So based on the headlights, I just thought older model but I feel useless because, my wife's dead, right? I want to have more to tell, but I just don't.'

Paola has recently gotten her green card and worked with Zane at a paint manufacturing company.

She had a close relationship to Zane's four children from a previous marriage, who range in age from six to 17.

Zane and police have asked that anyone with information on the shooting come forward and contact Detective C. Jackson at 817-788-7179.

A GoFundMe created to cover Paola's family's traveling expenses and memorial has collected $4,300 of its 10,000 goal. 

'She's going to be cremated and we're going to have a service here in a service in Guatemala, and then we're going to take her ashes and we're going to put them everywhere that she wanted to be - all her favorite places,' Zane said through tears.