Who Is Richard Concepcion? Texas Man Who Abducted His Child Found Dead

The child abducted by his father Richard Jose Concepcion, 37, was found safe by the San Antonio police after Concepcion shot himself in the head and was rushed to the hospital. He did not survive the self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. His 18-month-old son was found safe in the back seat of the pickup truck.

Concepcion kidnapped his son after killing his wife Sarah Alexis Furey following a discourse over a custody meeting. The fatal shooting and abduction spurred a manhunt in the county. Concepcion was an army staff sergeant on transition leave until his retirement.

San Antonio police chief William McManus said officers were called to assist custodial exchange between Concepcion’s estranged wife and the suspect at 8 a.m. local time (9 a.m. EST), but the call swiftly changed to shots fired in the premises on the 10400 block of Arbor Bluff.

When police arrived at the scene, the woman was found dead at the doorstep and the father had fled with the child. The suspect and the child were found nearly two hours after an Amber alert was issued on Sunday morning for 18-month-old Aaron Joseph Concepcion by authorities in Guadalupe County, Texas.

The father was found with a grave injury sustained by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. Concepcion died after he was bought into the hospital by the authorities. Police said the couple’s two other children were unharmed in the incident.

The police said they were called into his home several times in the past for domestic issues since the couple separated. According to the Bexar county records Concepcion was in the midst of divorce proceedings. A temporary restraining order was also filed on Concepcion. It was unclear whether the restraining order was lifted, reports said.

This is the third such incident in Texas involving a former army officer, in the span of a year. Devin Kelley opened fire and killed 26 people in a Baptist church in November, several of whom were children. Kelley was reported to have a violent past and was court-martialed for fracturing his baby step-son’s skull and assaulting his first wife Tessa in an incident at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

After the shooting at the church Kelley fled the secene when a local resident grabbed his gun and started shooting at him. He was later found dead by the police. Officials said Kelley might have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Last week, a former soldier from Arlington, Texas, was found guilty of killing an ex-marine, in a shooting incident in May 2016, for trying to stop him from escaping the scene of a shooting. Ricci Bradden, 23, shot Anthony Antell, 35, in the parking lot of a Walgreens in Arlington. Bradden had shot his wife Quinisha Johnson on the ankle following her Facebook post which involved a picture of herself in what he perceived to be revealing clothing. He accused her for always seeking attention from other men.