Study says that underage Latina girls in the US are often impregnated by their uncles

Here is what happened to one girl who refused her uncle's advances

"Karen Flores wrote in a school essay that she looked forward to her quinceañera this spring because "that day my dream will come true. That day my parents wake to see a little girl, but at the end of the night I will be a young lady."

On Monday, only weeks after her 15th-birthday celebration, Flores' life ended. Her uncle, Jose Manuel Landaverde, 40, shot the popular Roseland University Prep honor student in the neck with a shotgun at their west Santa Rosa home and then turned the gun on himself, police said.

Landaverde reportedly was "controlling" and upset about Flores' interest in boys, police said.

At about 4 p.m. Monday, Flores was with two siblings, ages 13 and 6, in the kitchen of the Dickens Drive home their family shared with Landaverde, police said.

He asked to talk with Flores privately in his room, Sgt. Lisa Banayat said, and she refused.

"Landaverde retrieved a shotgun from his bedroom, walked into the living room, and shot Flores in the neck," according to a police statement. "Landa-verde went into the kitchen and shot himself in the head. Both younger siblings were present during the shootings and ran to a neighbor's home for help."

Flores' grieving family gathered Tuesday at a home on Giffen Road near Stony Point Road.

"She was an intelligent, very intelligent, beautiful girl," Jose Luis Gutierrez, an uncle, said in Spanish.

Speaking of Landaverde he said, "He was in love with her."

Family and school friends recounted vague and sporadic conversations with Flores about Landaverde. Flores recently had told her cousin, Xiomara Hercules, that Landaverde had "pushed and pulled her."