A FITNESS influencer mom and her new date were shot dead, just days after she publicly revealed her breakup on a podcast.
Her estranged husband allegedly pulled the trigger before being gunned down himself by an off-duty cop.
Gloria Zamora, 40, and her date, Hector Garduno, 43, were killed in the restaurant parking lot, according to police and her family.
The brutal shooting unfolded late Saturday outside a sushi spot in Fontana, California, approximately fifty miles from Los Angeles.
The mom-of-seven had recently gone public on her podcast, HERizon, about her decision to leave her second husband Thomas Alberto Tamayo Lizarraga.
“They were going through a divorce, that led to this,” Officer Steve Reed with the Fontana Police Department told ABC local affiliate KABC-TV.
Police said the pair had been at the restaurant for about an hour before the attack.
“We don’t know how he knew where she was at,” Reed said.
Zamora’s estranged husband, Thomas Alberto Tamayo Lizarraga, is accused of carrying out the double killing.
As shots rang out, several off-duty law enforcement officers were nearby.
One of them, a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy, was driving past the shopping center.
“He made a U-turn at the light, and got out of his vehicle, and confronted the suspect,” Reed said.
The deputy fatally shot Lizarraga on the spot.
Zamora was a mom of seven and had over 150,000 followers on Instagram.
She was known for her fitness content and motivational posts directed toward women.
A GoFundMe for her children said she “leaves behind 7 beautiful children, ages 8 to 24.”
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“In an act of unimaginable violence, my mom was senselessly taken from us; she was murdered by my stepdad Tomas,” her daughter Jazlynne Zamora wrote in the description.
“She was a light in her community,” she said.
“She always said, ‘Women can do anything they set their minds to,’ and she lived those words every day.”
Garduno, a father of four, was remembered in a separate fundraiser.
His children described him as “a devoted and hardworking man that was tragically murdered and gone too soon.”
Police said the investigation into the shooting is still ongoing.
The Fontana Police Department didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment by The U.S. Sun.
