Texas Mom Found Beaten to Death Inside Closet, Boyfriend Arrested [Video]

A Texas woman reportedly found beaten to death in a closet had long been the victim of domestic abuse, her family claims.

Dallas police received a call from the nearby Garland Police Department in the early hours of April 15, reporting a murder at a Dallas apartment, both police departments confirm to PEOPLE.

At the W. Wheatland Road address, Omar Lucio, 34 “refused to come outside,” per a Dallas police press release, which noted that nearly two hours after officers were called to the scene, Lucio “came outside and was taken into custody” around 3 a.m.

Inside the apartment, officers found a woman who was “unresponsive,” per police, who said that she “died at the scene.”

Lucio was charged with murder and booked into Dallas County Jail later that afternoon, per police and his online Dallas County booking records.

Lucio also faces a dozen additional charges connected to …