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Town reels after family deaths Couple's divorce: One last meeting, one unexpected tragedy 07/18/2002 By LAURIE FOX and CHRIS FRATES / The Dallas Morning News HUDSON OAKS - After months spent dissolving a 13-year marriage, Manuel Perez and his estranged wife faced one last meeting. Mr. Perez was to see Dee Etta Perez at the couple's Parker County home at 10 a.m. Tuesday, just after attorneys tied up most of the loose ends in their divorce. Even the list of things he was to gather there had been set by the court. Among them some household items, a family...

Woman, 3 kids dead in Parker County shooting 07/16/2002 From Staff Reports A woman and her three children are dead and a man wounded in shootings in Parker County. The incident was reported around 2 p.m. Tuesday. It happened in the small town of Hudson Oaks, west of Fort Worth. Deputies say they responded to a call that a woman had shot her children. Witnesses said a wounded man broke through a window at the Parker County residence and sought assistance. The man, a 17-year veteran of the Fort Worth Fire Department, is in critical condition at a Fort...