Police Told her to stop Calling Before Murder-Suicide

[PrincessArky]

Police said Clay Coffner shot his estranged girlfriend in the head outside her DeLand home Friday before turning the gun on himself.

Hall's mother, Sherry, said her daughter was concerned about Coffner and informed police.

In fact, Hall said her daughter called police so much that on Jan. 15 they threatened her.

"The police officer said if you call us one more time on him, I'm going to arrest you both," Sherry Hall said. "So, the day she died, she knew she couldn't talk to police. So, she handled it herself."

Michele Karpowicz said everyone noticed the warning signs before the homicide -- except police.

"I was going crazy," Hall's best friend said. "He was psycho, jealous and abusive."

Local 6 is trying to obtain a police call log to determine how many times the teen called police.

DeLand police officials have not responded to the allegations.


http://www.local6.com/news/15330073/detail.html

How sad :(

[janelle]

That is horrible. Just like the time the little boy called to report his mother had a heart attack and the 911 operator told him to stop playing with the phone and hung up.

[gmyers]

What gives police the right to tell someone to stop calling. Thats ridiculous.

[freeby4me]

I'd like to see more about this story, like how many times she called, how many times they showed up, how many times they offered restraining orders and how many times she refused.

[dv8grl]

Hmm...

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-twodead1708feb17,0,4973465.story?track=rss

Mike Cummings has mulled over some difficult thoughts since his 17-year-old stepdaughter Natasha La'May Hall was shot to death Friday night at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, 19-year-old Daniel Clayton "Clay" Kufer, who then took his own life.

Why didn't she call the police?

Where did he get the gun?

He killed my daughter.

"I'm just trying to make it through the day," Cummings said. "I am emotionally drained."

"It's tragic," said Jim Cummings, Natasha's stepgrandfather. "She was loving, bright, beautiful and sharp as a tack.

"It's tragic a young girl's life was taken."

DeLand police, who classified the deaths as a murder-suicide, found the bodies on Mike Cummings' front porch.

Police couldn't confirm the events that led to the teens' deaths, and Kufer's family couldn't be reached for comment Saturday. But Cummings said the pair's relationship was shaky.

"They had been dating eight or nine months. It had been a very rough relationship," Natasha's stepfather said.

Natasha, a DeLand High School student, decided to break it off with Kufer a month or so ago, Cummings said.

Then she started seeing someone else, a Marine stationed at Camp LeJeune, S.C., Mike Cummings said.

Natasha's new suitor came down to DeLand to visit, and the two were supposed to go to the Daytona 500 Saturday night.

But they never got that far.

Here's how Mike Cummings described what happened Friday night:

Natasha and a friend went shopping for clothes for the race.

Cummings and Natasha's mother, Cheri, went out to dinner with their younger daughter in Daytona.

Kufer broke into their DeLand home on West May Street and looked through the caller ID on the house phone.

He found the Marine's number and called. "He pretended to be an Air Force recruiter because Natasha wanted to enroll in the Air Force. He started interrogating him and said that Natasha listed him as a reference," Natasha's stepfather said.

The Marine hung up, but Kufer called back.

"Clay explained to him that Natasha was his girlfriend and that she was only 17," Natasha's stepfather said.

The Marine then called Natasha and warned her that Kufer had broken into her house.

"But she didn't call the police," Mike Cummings said. "Natasha, probably more brave than smart, went back to the house and changed clothes."

Kufer was hiding behind the bushes near the front door, and as Natasha and her friend were leaving the front door, Kufer confronted the girls.

"He shot her in the head, then started talking crazy. He told her friend if she didn't want to die she should leave, then put a bullet in Natasha's chest," Natasha's stepfather said. "He then took his life on my porch."

"Seriously. Who in their right mind would give this boy a gun. He's been on edge for a while."

Kufer was known to take out his aggression on Natasha and hit her, her stepfather said.

But Cummings said he and the girl's mother had agreed that if Kufer took a military placement test and got into the Air Force they wouldn't press charges.

"We didn't want to ruin Clay's life," Mike Cummings said. "Unfortunately, he chose the exactly wrong way to end it."

Even after the breakup, Natasha thought she could still communicate with Kufer.

"She was an average kid who ended up in a 30-year-old relationship," Natasha's stepfather said. "It wasn't a typical teenager relationship. It was so serious."

[ma4angels]

You would think that if she called the police all the times she did that they would help her and not turn her away. I would make that person accountable for this tragic mess. If you can't turn to the police with a person like this guy then what the h-ll do you do. I am so sorry for her family.

[dv8grl]

http://www.mydeathspace.com/article/2008/02/19/Clay_Kufner_(19)_shot_and_killed_his_ex_girlfriend _Natasha_Hall_(17)_in_a_murder_suicide

[Shann]

this is very very sad, her poor family and the poor girl who lost her life for nothing. :( I hope they find the strenght to get through the days.