Mónica Spear

Mónica Spear Mootz was born to Rafael Spear Tudares and Ingeborg Mootz Gotera Her maternal family emigrated from Germany and her paternal family has English ancestry The SpearMootz family moved to Orlando Florida in 2000 after her mother Ingeborg retired from her job with an oil company in Venezuela Her father Rafael is a project engineer at Siemens Westinghouse Prior to being named the fifth most beautiful woman in the universe Spear completed a bachelors degree in theater from the University of Central Florida before returning to Venezuela to compete in the national pageant Her participation in Miss Venezuelagarnered notoriety when she was asked during the traditional breakfast with press the day after the pageant because of her degree which Venezuelan playwright she liked the most to which she answered Gabriel García Márquez a Colombian writer She crowned her Miss Venezuela successor Jictzad Viña on 15 September 2005 Spear married a British businessman Thomas Henry Berry whose nationality was later misidentified as Irish in June 2008 She gave birth to a daughter later that year The couple divorced in 2012 but remained friendly and at the time of their death they were attempting to reconcile She was a naturalized United States citizen resident inMiami Florida She is a cousin of Jossie Nikita Marques Spear a Venezuelan model Spear was fluent in Spanish English and French On January 6 2014 Spear was in her native Venezuela on vacation with her exhusband and their fiveyearold daughter On a highway in central Carabobo when the three were inside their car waiting for assistance after the vehicle had broken down Spear and her exhusband were killed during an attempted robbery and their daughter shot and wounded in the leg The police reported that the incident occurred around 9 or 10 pm It has been theorized that the thieves tried to rob them and the couple resisted