Former Venezuelan beauty queen Monica Spear, 29, and her British husband Thomas Berry, 39, have been shot dead in their car in Venezuela.
Their five-year-old daughter, who was injured in the incident, is said to be in a stable condition in hospital.
Police have launched a investigation into the killing, which happened on the highway leading from Valencia to Puerto Cabello.
Ms Spear became Miss Venezuela in 2004, and also acted in soap operas..
Former Venezuelan beauty queen Monica Spear, 29, and her British husband Thomas Berry, 39, have been shot dead in their car in Venezuela.
Their five-year-old daughter, who was injured in the incident, is said to be in a stable condition in hospital.
Police have launched a investigation into the killing, which happened on the highway leading from Valencia to Puerto Cabello.
Ms Spear became Miss Venezuela in 2004, and also acted in soap operas.
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A Venezuelan actress and her ex-husband were shot to death and their 5-year-old daughter was wounded when armed robbers ambushed their broken-down car during an idyllic vacation, police said Tuesday.
Monica Spear's family said they had tried and failed to convince the former beauty queen, who starred in several telenovelas, to leave crime-ridden Venezuela and join them in the United States after she was robbed six times.
'She loved her country too much,' said her brother, Ricardo Spear Mootz, who lives in Florida. 'It was her home.'
Spear, 29, was on a road trip with ex-husband Henry Thomas Berry, 39, and daughter Maya, when they got into a small accident on the Valencia-Puerto Cabello highway.
While they were waiting for a tow truck for their stranded gray Toyota Corolla, gunmen approached the car, police said. The couple locked themselves inside, but the bandits opened fire.
No arrests have been made, but the double slaying focused fresh attention on crime in Venezuela, where 70 people have been murdered in the first week of the year.
Diego Sanchez, who has known the victims for about six years, said the shooting made him think about leaving Venezuela.
'To think there are people who can shoot a mother and father in front of their daughter is very sad and unbelievable,' he said. 'And it’s shocking when it happens to someone you know.'
Family and friends said that al
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Monica Spear was a popular soap opera actress.
A former Miss Venezuela and her ex-husband were shot and killed and their 5-year-old daughter wounded when they resisted robbers by locking themselves inside their car after tire punctures disabled it on an isolated stretch of highway, police said Tuesday.
The slaying of Monica Spear, 29, a popular soap-opera actress, and Thomas Henry Berry, a 39-year-old British citizen, was the latest high-profile crime in a country where killings are common in armed robberies and where rampant kidnapping has ensnared even foreign ambassadors and professional baseball players.
Monday's killings followed a pattern in Venezuela of late-night assaults carried out by disabling cars with obstacles placed on roadways or by removing sewer covers.
Locked themselves in car
Spear and Berry were slain at about 10:30 p.m. between Puerto Cabello, the country's main port, and the provincial capital of Valencia. They were returning from vacation to Caracas on a badly maintained stretch of highway that is lightly travelled at that hour.
Their four-door sedan hit 'a sharp object that had been placed on the highway' which punctured at least two of its tires, the director of the country's investigative police, Jose Gregorio Sierralta, told reporters.
Two tow trucks arrived almost immediately after, said Sierralta, and the attack occurr
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Monica Spear is seen here in photo taken before the Miss Universe competition in Bangkok, Thailand in May 2005. Venezuelan authorities say the soap-opera actress and her ex-husband were shot and killed resisting a robbery after their car broke down
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