Man Gets 35 Years for Killing Sister After Dish Dispute
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He was told to do the dishes — now he will be doing 35 years.

In Wisconsin, a man killed his sister and wounded his parents because he became frustrated when they asked him to wash the dishes. He stated that he had been taunted for years due to his unemployment status.

Gerardo Jimenez-Rico, 32, admitted he opened fire inside the family’s Milwaukee home on Jan. 22, just hours after they returned from a monthlong vacation to Mexico without him.

A Milwaukee County judge sentenced him Tuesday to 35 years in prison and 19 years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty last month to first-degree reckless homicide, attempted second-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless injury, court records show. 

Jimenez-Rico told police he didn’t go on the trip because he couldn’t afford it and said his family often “gangs up on him because he is unemployed and he feels they bully him.”

After they returned, his father confronted him about dirty dishes piling up in the sink. Jimenez-Rico said the plumbing was backed up, but the fight escalated when his father told him to move out and his sister, 22-year-old Jocelyn Jimenez, chimed in to agree.

That’s when he pulled a gun from his waistband and opened fire, striking his father first, then shooting his sister. He told police that his sister had grabbed a knife so he shot her “to prevent getting stabbed,” according to court records. 

An autopsy showed she was shot four times in the chest, back, lungs and arm — and died at the scene.

Jimenez-Rico also shot his mother as she entered the room, later telling investigators he “did not intend” to and “could not explain why.”

Both parents survived the attack and were hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

Hours later, Jimenez-Rico walked into a Milwaukee police station and confessed.

Jocelyn was remembered in her obituary as a devoted mother, daughter and fiancée. She leaves behind a 3-year-old daughter, Melanie, who “was her entire world.” Jocelyn had dreams of becoming a nurse, her family wrote.

A GoFundMe started by her fiancé has raised more than $18,700 to help support the child and family.

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