When Jennifer Leon asked the courts last year for a restraining order against her former partner, she wrote that she feared he would kill her as he threatened to do so before. The restraining order was granted.

On May 6, police found Leon shot and wounded in her Montebello apartment in the 800 block of Mines Avenue. The 33-year-old died at a hospital from multiple gunshot wounds. Officers located their suspect dead in a pickup truck parked on nearby Montebello Boulevard.

The man, identified by the medical examiner’s office as 37-year-old Tommy Rios of Covina, shot himself in the head.

Montebelllo police haven’t revealed what led to Leon’s shooting, but court documents and public records shed a light on the relationship between the former couple.

Leon and Tommy Roy Rios III used to date, had lived together and have a daughter, Leon wrote in the form dated Jan. 24, 2024 requesting a restraining order.

“I ask the judge today to please grant this restraining order as I fear that he might harm me and kill me as he has said he would do in the past,” she wrote.

During an argument on November 2023, Rios threatened to kill her and told her he would even commit a murder/suicide, according to Leon. Rios got upset over a male friend of Leon’s calling her phone.Leon also said she feared for her and her daughter’s safety. She felt Rios wasn’t emotionally stable enough to have their daughter, as he has mentioned he was extremely depressed for not having a job and had told her he had thought of taking his life when he is home.

The two argued at their then residence in the 600 block of East Italia Street in Covina on Jan. 18, 2024 which led to Covina police arresting Leon on suspicion of domestic violence.

The dispute was over children’s clothing, Covina police Lt. Josh Turner said, adding that Leon was cutting the clothing with a pair of scissors.

The police report doesn’t identify the man whom Leon argued with. But she later identified him as Rios when she filed for a restraining order.

“He claimed she struck him with a closed fist,” Turner said, adding the man had redness to one side of his face and scratch marks on his head and neck.

The man also asked for a temporary protective order which was granted and lasted six days, Turner said.

Leon was released from custody Jan. 22, 2024. It doesn’t appear that authorities filed criminal charges against her.

She asked the courts for a restraining order two days later and included a statement that gave her version of what happened at the Covina apartment Jan. 18, 2024.

According to Leon, Rios’ mother went to their home with clothing for the child after Leon had asked Rios not to have his mother come around her children.

“Tommy was upset, pushed and shoved me. I asked him to please leave me alone. He threatened to call the police on me and proceeded to falsely accuse me of assaulting him,” Leon wrote. “Unfortunately, I was arrested and I got released that following Monday as everything was dropped.”

A relative and a close friend of Leon couldn’t be reached for comment on Thursday.

The restraining order against Rios, approved on Feb. 16, 2024, was for three years.