Iraqi war veteran B.S. admitted to detectives that he stalked his wife, J.S., for several days while she worked her shifts as a Milwaukee police officer, before ambushing her on Christmas Eve and then gunning her down, as reported by the Huffington Post.
Fellow officers located J.S. in front of the Wauwatosa fire station. Five bullets reached their mark in her head.
B.S. has since been charged with first-degree intentional homicide. A decorated Marine Corps veteran, B.S. was ordered held on a $1 million cash bond.
According to authorities, officers were looking for J.S. when she failed to respond to radio calls.
J.S., a two-year veteran with the department, was on patrol alone the night she was killed.
Wauwatosa police Chief Barry Weber told reporters, "She was everything I could hope for in a young police officer: intelligent, energetic, willing to be of service and wanting to be a great police officer."
Several details linked B.S. to J.S.'s murder according to investigators – a vehicle matching the description of B.S.'s vehicle was seen on a surveillance video taken from the murder scene, a gun found in the attic of the couple's home fires ammunition that matches the bullet casings with those discovered at the scene and J.S.'s service weapon was also located hidden away in the attic.
At approximately 6:30 a.m. B.S. telephoned the police to ask how is wife was doing at work. Within five minutes a police sergeant phoned B.S. back – and instructed him to come to the police station due to an incident involving his wife.
The complaint said that B.S. did not ask the sergeant what had happened. Even after arriving at the station, and learning that his wife had been killed; B.S. allegedly didn't ask what had occurred.
During the police interview, B.S. admitted to being "jealous of other men with regards to his wife."
A colleague J.S.'s reported being told three weeks prior to her death that B.S. allegedly put a gun to her head during a violent episode. However, the police chief was not aware of B.S.'s earlier threat or any issues that would have caused the department to be concerned that J.S. was in danger.
Dave Spakowicz, the director of the department's criminal investigation operations, has not yet speculated on a motive. The investigation is being aided by the state Justice Department.
Video surveillance taken of B.S. while he sat in an empty room in the police station recorded him talking to himself. He is heard saying, "How could I do that to her" and mumbling something that sounded like J.S. had only wanted to help him.
After stalking J.S. for days, according to the testimony B.S. gave investigators, he waited near the fire department for her to appear, as it was a known location for officers to take their breaks. When he saw her cruiser pull up, he opened fire. She tried to get her weapon from its holster but B.S. took it away.
The shots to her face, according to the complaint, were because he said "he wanted to make sure she was dead so she wouldn't suffer."
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