Darrin Lopez: Army veteran who killed his GF's husband claims he was manipulated
DALLAS, TEXAS: Darrin Lopez claims he was tricked into killing. As per the ex-Army Special Forces medic, he murdered his girlfriend’s husband Jamie Faith because he was manipulated by her.
In an interview with ‘Dateline’, the convict said, “I was doing what I had to do to protect Jennifer,” referring to Jennifer Faith who is now serving life in federal prison for planning the whole operation.
How did Lopez kill Jennifer's husband?
Jamie was murdered on the couple's 15th wedding anniversary in October 2020. He suffered from a total of seven shots, three blows to the torso, one in the groin, and three gunshot wounds to the head while he was walking his dog with his wife Jennifer. Lopez's trial took place in Dallas, Texas.
The murderer is a disabled Army veteran who claimed his high school girlfriend tricked him into murdering her husband. Lopez drove over 600 miles to shoot dead Jamie just months after he reconnected with Jennifer during the Covid-19 pandemic.
US Attorney said after the conviction, “Both before and after the murder, she sent Mr. Lopez money and gifts, and even provided him with two credit cards which she paid off using the proceeds of a "Support Jennifer Faith GoFundMe.”
Jennifer Faith used fake email ID to manipulate Darrin Lopez
Jennifer Lynne, who later admitted that she sent Lopez fake photos of her injury and created two bogus email accounts, one pretending to be Jamie, and the other as a friend, to convince him that she’s been physically and sexually abused.
"The photographs Jennifer Lynne Faith sent to [Lopez] in an attempt to support her false claims of abuse were in fact photographs taken of injuries she sustained in a traffic accident in Arizona in September 2012," according to a superseding indictment, as per People.
In an email to that friend, Lopez wrote, "I know I won't feel better about her situation until she is out of the house away from him or she lets me put a bullet in Jamie's head. I keep offering and she keeps telling me no…LOL."
Jennifer after the killing of her husband Jamie, spoke to Fox 4, where she appealed to the public to help find the killer. "It’s been horrible. Devastating. I teeter between completely heartbroken and completely devastated every day," she told the outlet.
ATF agents arrested Lopez on a murder charge in Cumberland Furnace on January 11, 2021. He was convicted of Jamie’s murder and received a 62-year sentence in July, as per Fox4.