article_snippet.sent: slain Bell Gardens mayor Lyvette Crespo shot Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo three times in the chest on September 30.
article_snippet.sent: However, brother-in-law says those claims are all a lie and that brother-in-law has evidence proving Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo is a cold-blooded killer.
article_snippet.sent: Indicted: Lyvette Crespo (right) allegedly shot The wife of a suburban Los Angeles mayor who was shot in his home husband, Bell Gardens, California Mayor Daniel Crespo (left), in September during a heated argument about brother-in-law infidelity.
article_snippet.sent: Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo claims Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo husband had become increasingly abusive in the months leading to Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo death.
article_snippet.sent: The wife of a suburban Los Angeles mayor who was shot in his home says The wife of a suburban Los Angeles mayor who was shot in his home shot Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo after Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo punched their son, who'd tried intervening during an argument .
article_snippet.sent: In text messages that brother, William Crespo, provided to the LA Times, Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo appears to have threatened to shoot her husband at least once before doing the deed. '
article_snippet.sent: Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo replied: 'It better last time U threaten to shoot me in head!!!'
article_snippet.sent: In a civil suit filed against Lyvette on behalf of Lyvette mother, Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo has asked for more than $53 million in damages for the death of Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo brother, who Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo says was killed 'with malice and in cold blood,' by Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo.
article_snippet.sent: Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo has told authorities it was self-defense after Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo punched their 19-year-old son in the face after Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo intervened in the couple's argument.
article_snippet.sent: : In this file photo, attorney Claudia Osuna holds a photo of the Crespo family - from top left to bottom right, Bell Gardens, Calif., Mayor Daniel Crespo, attorney Claudia Osuna daughter Crystal, attorney Claudia Osuna wife Lyvette and son Daniel Crespo Jr. Daniel Crespo Jr. called 911 to report the shooting, telling a dispatcher: 'attorney Claudia Osuna's on the floor dying.
article_snippet.sent: Daniel Crespo, a Los Angeles County deputy probation officer, was elected in 2001 to the City Council of Bellflower, a city of about 42,000 residents.
article_snippet.sent: The mayor's mother filed a $53 million lawsuit last fall in which The mayor's mother calls Daniel Crespo's a 'cold-blooded killer' who picked a fight with The mayor's mother knowing their son would intervene.
highlights_snippet.sent: The 43-year-old told authorities it was in self-defense after Widow of slain Bell Gardens mayor Lyvette Crespo husband punched their teenage son when her husband tried to intervene in the fight .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Widow of slain Bell Gardens mayor Lyvette Crespo former brother-in-law claims that allegations of years of abuse are all a lie and says her husband has text messages proving the slaying was in cold blood .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: slain Bell Gardens mayor Lyvette Crespo faces up to 21 years in state prison if convicted .