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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:16 PM Apr 2016

Ohio man calmly tells 911: 'I just shot and killed my wife'

Source: Associated Press

Ohio man calmly tells 911: 'I just shot and killed my wife'

Dan Sewell, Associated Press

Updated 3:49 pm, Tuesday, April 26, 2016

CINCINNATI (AP) — A suburban Cincinnati man called 911 and gave his address, and when the dispatcher asked what she could help him with, he replied calmly: "I just shot and killed my wife."

He told her he would leave his gun in the kitchen and wait for police on his front stoop.

Police said Jeffrey Hawkins, 57, surrendered to officers at his Colerain Township home after the call Monday morning. He had told authorities his wife, 59-year-old Jo Ann Hawkins, cleaned out their bank account on Saturday — his birthday — and refused to talk to him Monday before he shot her multiple times with a .40-caliber handgun.

Asked by the dispatcher if he was still armed, he replied: "It's (the gun) on the sink. I'm not a threat to anybody. I'm a former police officer."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Ohio-man-confesses-to-911-I-just-shot-and-7374709.php

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Ohio man calmly tells 911: 'I just shot and killed my wife' (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2016 OP

So ...... houston16revival Apr 2016 #1

Obviously the ex-cop doesn't want to be a suicide-by-cop statistic. In_The_Wind Apr 2016 #2

OK, this is getting weird! Stonepounder Apr 2016 #3

Leaving a spouse is a very dangerous time for a woman TexasBushwhacker Apr 2016 #4

i don't understand. did his wife invade his home? maxsolomon Apr 2016 #5

former cop murders his wife rockfordfile Apr 2016 #6

Because use of 2naSalit Apr 2016 #7

Well he stopped her from taking that money ! ! Good thing he had that gun in the heat of the moment Person 2713 Apr 2016 #8

he killed her after Skittles Apr 2016 #10

Still his wife and she never got away with it! Person 2713 Apr 2016 #11

Given his reaction to her leaving him, christx30 Apr 2016 #9

houston16revival

(953 posts)

1. So ......

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:27 PM

Apr 2016

in his mind, he was stopping his wife's robbery of their bank account?

Must have been a great guy to live with.

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

2. Obviously the ex-cop doesn't want to be a suicide-by-cop statistic.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:29 PM

Apr 2016

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)

3. OK, this is getting weird!

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:56 PM

Apr 2016

First the Peebles, OH shootings. Now Colerain. I live in Northern KY, right over the Ohio River from Cincinnati. (The Cincinnati airport is the next exit down I-275 from me.) Folks, this nonsense is getting just too close to home!

TexasBushwhacker

(20,202 posts)

4. Leaving a spouse is a very dangerous time for a woman

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:56 PM

Apr 2016

My mother had the papers served on my dad at work and left town. She didn't clean out the bank account, but I can understand why this woman would. Mist likely all credit cards would be canceled, so cash would be the only thing she had access to.