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An Oxnard man shot and killed his wife then turned himself in early Saturday morning, Oxnard police said.
Nicholas Vargas, 35, used a handgun to shoot Tracy Vargas, 34, in their home on the 700 block of Paseo Margarita around 2 a.m. Saturday, according to police.
Officers went to the house after receiving a call about a shooting victim inside the residence. Vargas had called a family member, told him that he had just shot his wife, and asked the man to pick up his children, who were upstairs sleeping at the time of the shooting, police said.
When officers arrived at the residence, Vargas was not there. They found the victim in the family room. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two of the children were in their rooms sleeping and the third was at a friend's house.
Investigators had telephone contact with Vargas throughout the morning. Vargas turned himself in to the Oxnard Police Department around 10:30 a.m.
The victim and Vargas have three young daughters, ages 3, 6 and 11, who were not injured and did not witness the incident, police said.
Posted by stave1 on August 25, 2007 at 10:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Why??????
Posted by oxnardlove62774 on August 25, 2007 at 10:25 p.m.
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Posted by oxnardlove62774 on August 25, 2007 at 10:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)
For those of you who don't know Oxnard PD just cause us to lose a precious person in our life due to them not doing their job. How many times did she have to report it?? Now you do something, why? cause she is dead. BS
Posted by wenlynnk on August 26, 2007 at 2:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Tracy, I will miss you more than I can even imagine. You were my best friend, and will always be. I know that you will watch over your beautiful girls, and we will all miss you and love you forever.
I LOVE YOU!!!
Posted by jcarbajal on August 26, 2007 at 6:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)
No one knows the truth, I mean the full truth in this case, do not rush to judge until ALL facts are released. I am more sad for 3 Beautiful daughters that now have lost their Mother & Father in the same night. My cousin Nico loved his Daughters and Wife (PERIOD!!!) I am not sure of the facts myself but I know that he would have done anything to protect his girls!
Posted by oxnardlove62774 on August 26, 2007 at 6:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
WELL I AM SORRY TO TELL YOU JCARBAJAL THE FACTS ARE THE FACTS MY COUSIN TRACY IS DEAD AT THE HAND OF NICK VARGAS (PERIOD!!) AND SURE HE MAY OF LOVED HIS DAUGHTERS BUT IF HE LOVED HIS WIFE HE WOULD NOT OF KILLED HER!!!
Posted by jcarbajal on August 26, 2007 at 7 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You have your facts and I have mine she wasnt the only one who called the PD! I lost my cousin TOO!!! Post your comments all day but the fact remains Tracy is gone and the girls are loosing out! Those are the real facts! PERIOD!!!!!!!!!
Posted by oxnardlove62774 on August 26, 2007 at 7:11 p.m.
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Posted by wenlynnk on August 26, 2007 at 8:57 p.m.
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Posted by wenlynnk on August 26, 2007 at 9:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
oh, and btw Gabriel_Sylar, the reason that they didn't say "allegedly", is because Nick confessed to at least 2 family members. Pretty much seals his fate for good
good riddance
Posted by imbetnonit on August 26, 2007 at 10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I think he had a lot to learn about love. I hope he is able to learn how to love his daughters better than this. He can never know the loss these girls are having to endure because of his immaturity. Shame on him
Posted by oxnardlove62774 on August 26, 2007 at 10:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
WENLYNNK I WANT TO TALK TO YOU. CAN YOU MESSAGE ME @ OXNARDLOVE62774@YAHOO.COM THANK YOU
Posted by oxnardlove62774 on August 27, 2007 at 7:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Please help our family fight back!! We need help posting this murder of Tracy on CNN/Nancy Grace!!
If you can help get national attention on this brutal murder, you might help at least one domestic violence victim from from what Tracy had to endure!!! Please help make this national!!
Thank You,
Tracy's Family & Friends
Posted by jcarbajal on August 27, 2007 at 8:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
No one was there with the family, and no one knows what was said! I love my cousin unconditionally. I am not here to justify what happened I am here to show support for my FAMILY!!!! My Condolenses to Tracy's family for their loss. Oh and this is "ALLEGEDLY"!!!!! He is innocent until proven guilty this is America.
Posted by oxnardlove62774 on August 27, 2007 at 10:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)
hahahahaha you are so funny jcarbajal get a life!!!
Posted by maryz8 on August 27, 2007 at 11:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Tracy's services will be held Thursday Aug30th,2007 at 1pm at Rose Hills, Whitter, Ca
Posted by maryz8 on August 27, 2007 at 11:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If any of Tracy's friend woul like to e-mail me my address is maryz8@yahoo.com I am Tracy's aunt in Oregon. I will be traveling down south but will check e-mail asap and get back with you.
Posted by jcarbajal on August 27, 2007 at 11:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Please continue to pray for both families, thank you and may God Bless all who knew Tracy, Nick and the girls. No one asked for this so now lets just try to make it as easy as possible for the children.
Posted by maryz8 on August 27, 2007 at 11:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Nick's arraignment is @ 1pm 8/28 at Ventura Court House Come out and support Tracy
Posted by maryz8 on August 27, 2007 at 11:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)
What do you call EASY jcarbajal? Let me know I haven't figured that one out yet. We don't know EASY right now. And Easy maybe EASY for you to say, you haven't lost a loved one. How dare you even suggest that, I'm outraged, horrified, heartbroken,and this will not be EASY on anyone including my nieces.
Posted by loveforda805 on August 27, 2007 at 2:30 p.m.
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Posted by jcarbajal on August 27, 2007 at 2:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
My Family is my life oxnardlove62774! And please remember maryz8 those little girls are my family too!!!! They are part of me, they are my Blood!
Posted by jcarbajal on August 27, 2007 at 3:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh and maryz8 please dont pretend to know me or my Family.... Loss please we've lost plenty!!!!
Posted by oxnardlove62774 on August 27, 2007 at 4:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)
jcarbajal you just remember as well those little angels are our blood too and our family is our life!!! and what do you mean you have lost plenty hahahaa are you kidding me?? I hope your good for nothing cousin rots in his cell!! he deserves NOTHING!!!!!!! Let's get it right..
Posted by frozenyogue211 on August 27, 2007 at 5:36 p.m.
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Posted by maryz8 on August 27, 2007 at 6:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
jcarbajal: I don't claim to know your family and said nothing about your family, I only know of one member and that is Nick, he was married to my niece and I've known him since him and Tracy met.What I do know of your family is only kindness toward Tracy and the girls,and those are Tracy's words. How close were you to this situation? Didn't you ever feel like things were just not right? Did you ever see bruises on Tracy, busted lips. I did. The last time I was in Oxnard she had bruised arms. There are many people that have seen injuries over the years and have even taken Tracy to the hospital for them, Are you aware of this? I'm not saying that Tracy was perfect no body is, but Nick was more in the position to put a stop to the destruction of the family. He was always finacially stable, and he was very controlling. If he didn't get his way he would wait til they got home and start in on her, I got many phone calls with Tracy crying on the other end.Tracy did love Nick and he loved her in a sick sort of way. Many hours were spent trying to convince Tracy to get away and stay away and start a new life for her and the girls, to stop the circle of violence but he would stop her each and everytime and use the kids against her, and many times threating to take his own life if she didn't come back, counseling was tried but Nick walked out and never returned. I talked to him on several occaisions about this, he always blamed Tracy.It takes two, since you are there I'm sure you have witnessed some of these events maybe not Tracy didn't really broadcast to Nicks family what was happening and if she did she paid dearly for it, but she did tell us.The last thing that was needed in that home was a gun, Nick was able to hold his own, and Tracy was no match. Maybe you just don't know the things that some others and myself know Jaime.Ask Nick how many times he has hit her,kidnapped her at gunpoint, pistol whipped her, kicked, threw things at her,broke a bottle over head, the list goes on and see what he says.Let us know, but you probably know these things already. How sad to put ALL of us through. Hope some of this will open your eyes as to what was really going on
Posted by frozenyogue211 on August 27, 2007 at 6:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT MARYZ8!!!
Posted by jcarbajal on August 28, 2007 at 8:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Believe me I am not trying to justify what happened but I have seen some of those same things that Tracy did to Nick, I saw plenty! I also know that my cousin was a single father doing the best that he could with his Daughters and Tracy was not in that picture. Everyone says why didn't he leave, LEAVE WHERE??!!! He was living in his on house where he was raising his own children!!! I am not going to go tit for tat about who did what in their relationship because it was THEIR relationship they continued to go back to each other time and time again no matter what any family member said. They made their own choices as 2 grown adults and this is the ending result. Even if you do not agree with me that is fine, I do not expect you too. My concern is not with what you feel is right my concern is now left with 3 girls with NO parents. Do not judge my whole family. Those 3 beautiful Angels know NO OTHER family but the ones that have been there for them 100%!!!!! They are with great people who are doing their best to protect them from any harm!!!! I am not going to continue to email back and fourth because this really is getting us no where, but more and more angry! The only thing that matters now is 3 girls not your opinions, not my opinions and really no one's opinion!!!!!!
Posted by imbetnonit on August 28, 2007 at 11:10 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I hope these girls are able to grow up surrounded by strong loving men and break the cycle of abuse they have had to endure so far in their young lives. Love shouldn't hurt.
Posted by frozenyogue211 on August 28, 2007 at 5:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Justice is served. Amen, there is a God. May the families get some kind of closure now. We pray for you. Nick was charged with murder in the first degree.
Posted by frozenyogue211 on September 1, 2007 at 9:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
TRACY LYNN MARSHALL MY BEAUTIFUL COUSIN R.I.P WHEN JENNIFER AND I KICKED IT WITH YOU THURSDAY FOR THE LAST TIME WAS THE HARDEST DAY OF MY LIFE. THE 3 AMIGAS WERE DONE NO MORE! I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES WE SHARED. I GAVE YOUR DAUGHETRS HUGS FOR YOU. HOW BEAUTIFUL THEY ARE. SABRINA LOOKS JUST LIKE YOU WHAT A TRIP. ANYWAY I WILL ALWAYS MISS AND THINK ABOUT YOU. GOD TOOK A GOOD LADY. NO MATTER THE MISTAKES YOU MADE. SORRY IT HAD TO TURN OUT LIKE THIS FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE FAMILY "TRAGIC" I ACTUALLY INTRODUCED NICK AND TRACY BACK IN 92 THEY HAD GOOD TIMES AND BAD TIMES, SOMETHING SHOULD OF BEEN DONE THEN. BUT AS OF NOW I AM NOT HERE TO JUDGE. LIFE IS NOT GOING TO BE THE SAME WITHOUT MY COUSIN!!! LODIE I WILL SEE YOU AGAIN SOMEDAY. MISS YOU BEYOND BUNCHES. JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED!!! VARGAS GIRLS YOUR COUSIN CHRISTINA LOVES YOU!!
Posted by maryz8 on September 1, 2007 at 3:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I have not written a word blaming Nick's family for anything, let's get this straight Jaime. Why would I or anyone with any brains do that,did you ever bother to interviene on the girl's behalf or
Nicks. A family would at least question their safety, and I did on many occaisions. When you stated your family being there 100% always then you know better than we claim what was happening on a daily basis, How many black eyes did you see?
Tracy took a final one along with three bullets to her grave, You seem to want to keep score TOP THAT !
Posted by oxnardlove62774 on September 2, 2007 at 3:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)
TRACY LYNN MARSHALL MY BEAUTIFUL COUSIN R.I.P WHEN JENNIFER AND I KICKED IT WITH YOU THURSDAY FOR THE LAST TIME WAS THE HARDEST DAY OF MY LIFE. THE 3 AMIGAS WERE DONE NO MORE! I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES WE SHARED. I GAVE YOUR DAUGHETRS HUGS FOR YOU. HOW BEAUTIFUL THEY ARE. SABRINA LOOKS JUST LIKE YOU WHAT A TRIP. ANYWAY I WILL ALWAYS MISS AND THINK ABOUT YOU. GOD TOOK A GOOD LADY. NO MATTER THE MISTAKES YOU MADE. SORRY IT HAD TO TURN OUT LIKE THIS FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE FAMILY "TRAGIC" I ACTUALLY INTRODUCED NICK AND TRACY BACK IN 92 THEY HAD GOOD TIMES AND BAD TIMES, SOMETHING SHOULD OF BEEN DONE THEN. BUT AS OF NOW I AM NOT HERE TO JUDGE. LIFE IS NOT GOING TO BE THE SAME WITHOUT MY COUSIN!!! LODIE I WILL SEE YOU AGAIN SOMEDAY. MISS YOU BEYOND BUNCHES. JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED!!! VARGAS GIRLS YOUR COUSIN CHRISTINA LOVES YOU!!
Posted by oxnardlove62774 on September 3, 2007 at 1:26 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If anyone would like to show sum love to Tracy and her babies here is her myspace page. This is not a page to bash Tracy so don't bother. Thank you!! http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?...
Posted by npkelley on February 19, 2008 at 12:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Nick & Tracy were both grown people who had choices. Fact is, there was mental & physical abuse that went BOTH ways in their relationship, but b/c Nick is a man it automatically looks worse on him. Yes, what happened goes w/out saying it is emotionally draining & ludicrous for both families and friends on both sides. This whole ordeal is, but who in the hell are you Maryz8 and everyone else out there to judge? Both families lost a family member,friends lost a friend. Let Tracy RIP. She will always be loved and remembered. My family still have my primo to deal with. Stop acting as if you're the victim. We all know how she passed. Not once has he denied it, so move on. Maryz8 you have to be the most unhappy, lonely, bored out your damn mind black hearted woman. Are you getting an award or something? Aunt of the year maybe? You call my primo Nick sick minded and twisted? He is not, but you’re not far from it! You steady claim you received calls from Tracy, that’s hear say. You being her aunt would be a believable story.I find interesting how Tracy NEVER mentioned you. The ONLY one she spoke of was her brother. Let me break it down for you. Tracy was a grown woman who had choices. She made her choices & Nick his.What the hell?! Again,where were you, your family and the rest of your bandwagoners before it got to this point? EVERYONE needs to stop speculating and stop blaming Nick alone for this whole incident while you kick yourselves for not doing something more to help.Mary you said,” Tracy was no match for Nick” Please, Tracy was not a small woman. Tracy didn’t keep her mouth shut or her hands off him either. Rather it was self defense or not she did NOT let herself. My primo Nick has proven nothing but being the sole provider, a caring & loving father. You’ve been what or where for my nieces? Have you offered to make sure they ate, had clothes, rides to school, had gear for sports, etc? You know basic living needs. Huh? Focus on my 3 nieces Maryz8 !
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Posted by npkelley on February 19, 2008 at 12:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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The more you talk about my primo Nick the more dirt will come out on Tracy, so keep your mouth shut. Tracy did have a felony charge for drug possession.The courts will not take kids away from their mother w/out proven evidence of being “unfit”. Beside the fact it was given up willingly so she also knew. A restraining order was even granted. He didn’t have to use the girls as leverage.The girls preferred to be w/ him. Again, get over yourself and try writing some positive crap in here. Oxnardlove62774 do you really want to put this story on TV? Don’t embarrass yourself or both families anymore. The girls are dealing w/ enough. They are ALL that matter. They were both fun,loving people on the outside, but NOBODY knows the real truth behind those doors. All this hear say needs to seriously stop. It’s sad as hell this couldn’t have been done differently with more help from us all. (Both families and friends) It happened. It’s done. Focus on those 3 beautiful girls that need nothing but love, positive grown role models, support, and happiness surrounding them. Don’t judge against all the positive things my cousin has done and been through w/ my nieces w/ this incident. Do you realize all the emotional/financial issues he was dealing with before this? I know he puts his daughters first regardless of what happened. Nobody has the right to question my primo Nicks love for his daughters. It is obvious his and Tracys relationship wasn’t a love story, but the love for his girls has and will always be unconditional. There was a lot involved. The ending result was inadvertent.
Society takes one thing and runs w/ it. Not knowing facts or inside details. Three facts remain: None of us were there to say what happened then or throughout the years, Maryz8 the more you open your mouth, stupidity constantly flows & the main one, Only God can judge.Leave it in Gods hands and let the courts decide.
Posted by oxnardlove62774 on February 29, 2008 at 7 p.m. (Suggest removal)
to:npkelley
Yeah you are right your little primo and Tracy were grown people but you know what the bottom line is no matter how bad things got at home your Primo had no right to take my cousins life NO MATTER what!!!! As you have no right talking sh*t to Maryz8 she raised Tracy that was one of her children so don't go puttin your 5 cents where it shouldnt be. She has the right to feel anyway she wants. We know Tracy was no angel but she didn't deserve to pay for it with her life at the hands of your little primo. And yes I hope this case does go national!!! Nick Vargas made a name for himself the day he pulled that trigger 3 times. And did it on a dare!!! HMMMM lets get real here!!! Your Primo is no angel!! Back off of Maryz8! How would you feel if your child was killed in cold blooded murder? huh How would you feel. I think u are the one that should shut your mouth!!! And another thing we don't have to explain anything to you.. Believe me npkelley we will get Justice for Tracy!!! You watch!!! Listen close!!!!! And for the Vargas babies your mommy is watching over you!! R.I.P Tracy Lynn.. SHUT YOUR MOUTH NPKELLEY IT MAKES YOU LOOK STUPID!!!
Posted by snf1975 on July 31, 2008 at 2:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
well i have to say one thing nick was the best dad he could be .. and he made sure he got hiss kids a roof over there heads and a belly full of food .... he also made sure he got them to there sports and anywhere they waanted to go.. he was the best thing that happened to them... tracy was never around to watch them grow... she was out with her bad influnced so called 'friends'.. that seemed to all ways lead her into the slammer... wat he did was wrong but he did it for a reason.. and btw nick was trying to make the best out of his kids life by bringing tracy back all the time so they could be a family but she kept leaving. DONT REPLY.. E-MAIL DISABLED.. TRY - sassygirl101@yahoo.com
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