Killed by her own husband: Kelin Mirei Pacheco White had a sad end

Kelin Mirei Pacheco White was shot to death by her husband Dwayne Lee White.
The man entered a police station and confessed to shooting his wife to death.
Pacheco White’s death occurred in the middle of an episode of domestic violence.

Kelin Mirei Pacheco White was shot to death by her husband, Dwayne Lee White, after a vicious marital quarrel. The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO), in Virginia, announced the arrest of the 41-year-old man charged with the murder of his 38-year-old wife.

On the morning of Monday, July 19, 2021, an African-American man entered the headquarters of the Staunton Police Department (SPD) and asked to speak to a detective. An agent talked to the man who identified himself as Dwayne Lee White and said he needed to confess to the crime of killing his wife, Kelin Mirei Pacheco White.

Kelin Mirei Pacheco White is shot dead by her husband

Staunton, Virginia, is a small town in the northwest of the state and which, according to United States Census Bureau, it barely has a population of 25,000 inhabitants. It is not a city that has a high level of violent crime, so a homicide for domestic violence caught the attention of the authorities immediately.

In his testimony, Dwayne Lee White said that during the night he had a conflict with his wife, Kelin Mirei Pacheco White, who had settled when he decided to kill her with several bullets. The man told authorities that after he murdered his wife, he had decided to turn himself in to the police.

Dwayne Lee White’s confession to the murder

Faced with Dwayne Lee White’s unusual confession, SPD agents, a small agency, requested the support of their ACSO colleagues to go to the couple’s home to investigate the incident. Several ACSO patrols were dispatched to the town of Crimora, east of Staunton, to the couple’s home.

Patrolmen were dispatched to Crimora at 7:03 a.m. to search the couple’s home, located at 256 Morton Road, in a rural and wooded area, where officers found Kelin Mirei Pacheco White already dead from several bullets. Then the agents of the Homicide Division of the ACSO entered the investigation.

Kelin Mirei Pacheco White died of a case of domestic violence

However, as of Dwayne Lee White’s testimony for the death of his wife, Kelin Mirei Pacheco White, the agents of the ACSO Homicide Division no longer had much to investigate because the man offered all the details of the crime in his confession. , accepted the charges and revealed the sequence of events of domestic violence.

Dwayne Lee White is already being held at the Middle River Regional Jail on charges, all serious, of murder of his wife Kelin Mirei Pacheco White, illegal possession of a weapon and the use of a firearm to commit a violent crime. As of this writing, it has not been determined when his first hearing will be.

Why was Kelin Mirei Pacheco White murdered?

The only thing that Dwayne Lee White has not confessed so far is what made him explode to such an extent, as to shoot his wife Kelin Mirei Pacheco White to death. The man only explains that it was all due to a marital fight that escalated throughout the night.

According to criminal records in Virginia, the detainee Dwayne Lee White for the murder of his wife Kelin Mirei Pacheco White has several previous arrests for crimes such as illegal possession of firearms, drug possession and aggravated assault of a family member . The case documents do not detail whether the couple fathered children.

The long chain of gun violence

The murder of Kelin Mirei Pacheco White by her husband Dwayne Lee White is just one more link to gun violence. The non-profit organization Gun Violence Archives, which fights to raise awareness about the dangers of the free sale of firearms, reports that so far this year 24,592 people have died

As of Wednesday, July 21, 2o21 of those people who have been shot dead in the United States, a total of 11,260 were murdered and 13,332 committed suicide. In addition, 22,349 have been injured. The country already experienced 376 mass shootings in the first half of the year, which are incidents in which at least four people die in the same event.

One more victim of domestic violence

The death of Kelin Mirei Pacheco White is not only circumscribed within the context of gun violence in the United States, but also has the component of domestic violence, since the woman was murdered by her husband Dwayne Lee White after a marital quarrel.

The murder of Kelin Mirei Pacheco White, allegedly at the hands of her partner, is within the national context of serious cases of domestic violence. According to the non-profit organization National Domestic Violence Hotline, one in four women in the United States suffers from an abusive relationship with her partner.

Thousands of people are attacked by their partners

According to that same organization, every minute an average of 24 people, men and women, suffer some type of violence, rape, harassment and intimidation by their partners. That makes a total of 12 million people a year being victims of domestic violence, like the victim in the case against Dwayne Lee White.

According to the nonprofit organization National Statistics on Domestic Violence (NCADV), the United States is experiencing a true pandemic of aggression, at various levels, against someone by their partner. Every minute, according to NCADV, 20 people are attacked by their partner in some way, including murder.

There is help for victims of domestic violence

In the United States, one in four women and one in nine men are constantly subjected to violent abuse, causing them physical injury, emotion, trauma and anguish for the rest of their lives and even homicide. Women between 18 and 24 years old, almost always in their first serious relationship, are the most vulnerable and those who report the most cases.

The National Domestic Violence Helpline, which can be consulted online, has a series of recommendations in Spanish for people who suffer from partner abuse. The organization explains that there are different types of domestic violence and that the victim must learn to identify them, as in the case of Kelin Mirei Pacheco White.

The severity of the laws in Virginia

According to the National Domestic Violence Helpline, according to its information in Spanish, it explains that anyone has the right to turn off their phone to be able to spend time with their family and friends without these activities having to anger their partner and no one can control someone else’s time even if they are married.

The Virginia Judicial System details that the definition of domestic violence in the state it is exemplified in cases of physical or verbal aggression of two people who share a relationship or live under the same roof even if they are only roommates.

The trial of the murderer of Kelin Mirei Pacheco White will not be long

Justice in the state of Virginia details that the aggressors in cases of domestic violence can be the husband or wife of a person regardless of whether they live together or not, the ex-husband or ex-wife regardless of how long they have been separated, boyfriends who live in the same house, couples who have a child in common or couples without children.

Dwayne Lee White, by voluntarily confessing to the murder of his wife Kelin Mirei Pacheco White, is admitting his guilt, so the trial against the man will not be long. To date, the defendant has not appointed an attorney to represent him in the dramatic domestic violence case.

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