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Chelsea Spillers was found dead in her home over the weekend

Spillers, a high school science teacher, is being mourned by the local community and her students

Her husband Brandon Ashley was arrested in a nearby county after allegedly telling people he was avoiding a highway because of its high police presence

A Texas community is reeling from the killing of a beloved high-school teacher, who was found dead in her home — two days before her husband was arrested.

Chelsea Spillers, 33, was killed on Saturday, Oct. 18, in her Alvarado, Texas home in what was being investigated as an "unexplained death," the Alvarado Police Department said in a statement .

Authorities believe she died from blunt force trauma, and issued a murder warrant against her husband Brandon Ashley, A

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