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Bond was set at $1 million for a 21-year-old woman charged with manslaughter after authorities say she confessed to shooting and killing her boyfriend in Donna.

Miriam Valdez was charged Monday afternoon after she admitted to firing a handgun at her boyfriend, whose body was found inside a vehicle on Sunday, according to the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office announced.

The investigation began after deputies with the sheriff’s office responded to a residence on the 13000 block of Hermosa Vida Drive in rural Donna Sunday at around 3 p.m. where they found a body of 20-year-old Damian Bazan inside a vehicle on the property. 

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Bazan had a gunshot wound to the head, the sheriff’s office preciously said. 

Valdez told investigators she fired what she believed was an unloaded gun in Bazan's direction, according to a news release. The cause of death was ruled to be homicide caused by the gunshot wound, the sheriff's office added. 

Valdez remains in custody at the Hidalgo County jail.