The children were asleep in their bedrooms. They had heard nothing — or perhaps didn’t understand what was happening. The man who called 911 sounded confused and shaken. He said he didn’t know whether the attacker was still in the house. He reported that his wife had been shot in the head. In the initial chaos, dispatchers clarified that the children were in their own rooms — not barricaded, not hiding with a parent.
When officers arrived, the scene began to shift. The woman was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead. Investigators documented two gunshot wounds. What first looked like a forced entry soon raised troubling questions. Detectives began to suspect that the scene may have been deliberately altered to mislead them about what had really happened that night.
