A man doused his estranged wife's Crownsville home with gasoline and bound and tormented the woman for hours Tuesday afternoon before fatally shooting himself when an officer arrived to investigate, county police said. The incident took place just hours after a District Court judge in Annapolis granted Andrea Dean a restraining order against her estranged husband, James John Dean, 47, according to electronic court records. Police say Andrea Dean's quick thinking - she sent a text message to a friend to call 911 - and the officer's knowledge of previous calls at the home thwarted what was apparently intended to be a murder-suicide. (The Capital)
Why didnt she just dial 911?
ReplyDelete12:35 I thought the same. Maybe the husband had already threatened her and she did not want to risk him coming into the room and see/hear her. If so, this was pretty smart thinking. I probably would have called 911 but he could have ripped the phone out of her hand and killed her right then and there on the spot.
ReplyDeleteGuess I'd better learn how to text because I have heard other stories where it has saved people's lives.
because she couldn't talk or he'd kill her, but she could send a silent message for help without him hearing or seeing?
ReplyDeleteif she called and said nothing they might have hung up thinking it was a crank