Homicide Suspect Jailed
Posted/updated on: July 6, 2011 at 2:10 pm
GILMER — Upshur County officials have confirmed that a Big Sandy man is jailed on murder charges in connection with a Saturday afternoon shooting that left a 52-year-old woman dead. According to Lt. Freddie Fitzgerald, Glenn Wade Myers Jr., 54, remained jailed on bonds totaling $356,000, charged with murder and an outstanding Wood County warrant for driving while intoxicated.
Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched around 4:00 Saturday afternoon to the 1900 block of Nutmeg Road west of Gilmer in connection with a shooting. Fitzgerald said when deputies arrived at the home, Cindy Espinoza, a mother of two, was found dead with a single gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace Lyle Potter, and an autopsy was ordered. Funeral services for Espinoza will be this afternoon at 2:00 at Croley Funeral Home in Gilmer.
