A local woman who was found shot to death inside her Northwest Side apartment Monday morning had been crying out for help as early as last week.

 SAN ANTONIO – A local woman who was found shot to death inside her Northwest Side apartment Monday morning had been crying out for help as early as last week.

In a series of Facebook posts dated last Friday, Sheila-Jo Portillo Hanks, writing under the name “Sheila-⁹Jo Portillo,” seemed desperate to have a friend reach out to her.

The posts mentioned that the 51-year-old needed a friend and wanted a friend to call or text her.

On Monday morning, San Antonio police found her, dead from a gunshot wound to her head, inside her ground-floor apartment in the 6100 block of Vance Jackson.

They also arrested Carlos Portillo, 44, who they found pacing the sidewalk nearby, covered in blood “from his waist, up.”

A police report says when asked, he told officers the blood belonged to his wife.

“It’s hard to believe,” one neighbor told KSAT 12 News Wednesday morning.

The neighbor, who did not want to reveal her identity, said she is still stunned by what happened.

She said she had only seen the couple in passing. The neighbor said they had lived at the Oak Creek apartment complex for only a few months.

In that short time, though, the neighbor said she did have hints of trouble.

She recalled hearing a loud argument last weekend, then another commotion Monday morning.

“We heard screaming around, about 6:00 in the morning,” the neighbor said. “I asked (my friend), “What was that noise? Who was that screaming?” And he said it was a lady.”

The neighbor said she only found out what happened from watching the news later.

Although the crime scene is gone now, the crime remains on the minds of people there.

Also remaining Wednesday morning was a dog that neighbors say belonged to the murdered woman.

It apparently was left behind during the commotion, although an officer with Animal Care Services was present at the scene Monday after the murder.