Jolie Rouge
04-15-2008, 05:09 PM
Man arrested in pregnant girlfriend's shooting sobs in court
By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 17 minutes ago
ROCKVILLE, Conn. - A sex offender accused of shooting his pregnant girlfriend in front of their two children told police the gun went off accidentally during an argument, according to a police report released Tuesday.
Police responded to the Bidwell Tavern parking lot in Coventry on Monday afternoon on a report of a blood-spattered man threatening to kill himself while holding his 2-year-old son. Police said the man, Alfredo Ferrer, put the gun in his mouth at one point.
Authorities said Ferrer, 43, told them during a standoff that he shot his girlfriend at their apartment near the restaurant. Officers said they eventually subdued him with a stun gun, and the child was taken to a hospital but appeared unharmed. His other child, who neighbors said is 5, also was with him, witnesses said.
The children's mother, 27-year-old Amanda Realie, was in extremely critical condition Tuesday at Hartford Hospital, authorities said. The hospital provided no information related to woman's fetus; neighbors said she is four to five months pregnant.
Ferrer told investigators he and Realie were fighting about her alleged drug use and his history as a sex offender, the report states. He said he went into his bedroom and smashed all his religious statues. "Look at what you made me do," Ferrer told Realie, according to the police report. "The devil is in me."
Ferrer then picked up the 2-year-old and took a gun out of a filing cabinet, police said. He approached Realie and cocked the .38-caliber revolver's hammer and she tried to run out of the apartment, the report said. He told investigators he tried to hit Realie with the gun, but it went off in her face when she swung at it.
Ferrer sobbed but said nothing Tuesday as he was arraigned in Rockville Superior Court. He is charged with attempted murder, assault, assault of a pregnant person, risk of injury to minors, reckless endangerment and several firearms charges.
He did not enter a plea. He was ordered held in lieu of $1.25 million bond and is to return to court April 25. His public defender declined to comment.
Court officials said Ferrer was convicted in the 1980s of sexually assaulting a minor, then escaped while on a one-day furlough in 1991 and remained a fugitive until he was arrested for marijuana possession in New York in 2002. He was briefly reimprisoned.
Witnesses said the ordeal at the tavern began when a bloody Ferrer showed up just before 6 p.m. and tried to use the phone. Frightened patrons were herded into a basement and the doors were locked once Ferrer left.
Court officials said Ferrer had worked as a dishwasher at the tavern for several years. Employees there declined to comment Tuesday.
Neighbor Linda McMenimen, 52, who moved into the apartment below the couple about a year ago, said the couple often fought and that she called police last year to report one particularly violent argument.
She said Ferrer "came down here and said I'd better not call the cops again because he's on parole and he murdered someone."
Another neighbor, Danielle Newton, said Realie had told her just hours before the shooting that she and Ferrer were doing well. "I know she was pregnant, and was very excited about that. She said she finally got her girl, or so she thought."
Coventry is a small town about 20 miles east of Hartford, not far from the main University of Connecticut campus.
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Freaking low life - it is always someone else's fault
sex offender accused of shooting his pregnant girlfriend in front of their two children told police the gun went off accidentally during an argument ... Ferrer then picked up the 2-year-old and took a gun out of a filing cabinet, police said. He approached Realie and cocked the .38-caliber revolver's hammer and she tried to run out of the apartment, the report said. He told investigators he tried to hit Realie with the gun, but it went off in her face when she swung at it.
See it is all her fault ...
By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 17 minutes ago
ROCKVILLE, Conn. - A sex offender accused of shooting his pregnant girlfriend in front of their two children told police the gun went off accidentally during an argument, according to a police report released Tuesday.
Police responded to the Bidwell Tavern parking lot in Coventry on Monday afternoon on a report of a blood-spattered man threatening to kill himself while holding his 2-year-old son. Police said the man, Alfredo Ferrer, put the gun in his mouth at one point.
Authorities said Ferrer, 43, told them during a standoff that he shot his girlfriend at their apartment near the restaurant. Officers said they eventually subdued him with a stun gun, and the child was taken to a hospital but appeared unharmed. His other child, who neighbors said is 5, also was with him, witnesses said.
The children's mother, 27-year-old Amanda Realie, was in extremely critical condition Tuesday at Hartford Hospital, authorities said. The hospital provided no information related to woman's fetus; neighbors said she is four to five months pregnant.
Ferrer told investigators he and Realie were fighting about her alleged drug use and his history as a sex offender, the report states. He said he went into his bedroom and smashed all his religious statues. "Look at what you made me do," Ferrer told Realie, according to the police report. "The devil is in me."
Ferrer then picked up the 2-year-old and took a gun out of a filing cabinet, police said. He approached Realie and cocked the .38-caliber revolver's hammer and she tried to run out of the apartment, the report said. He told investigators he tried to hit Realie with the gun, but it went off in her face when she swung at it.
Ferrer sobbed but said nothing Tuesday as he was arraigned in Rockville Superior Court. He is charged with attempted murder, assault, assault of a pregnant person, risk of injury to minors, reckless endangerment and several firearms charges.
He did not enter a plea. He was ordered held in lieu of $1.25 million bond and is to return to court April 25. His public defender declined to comment.
Court officials said Ferrer was convicted in the 1980s of sexually assaulting a minor, then escaped while on a one-day furlough in 1991 and remained a fugitive until he was arrested for marijuana possession in New York in 2002. He was briefly reimprisoned.
Witnesses said the ordeal at the tavern began when a bloody Ferrer showed up just before 6 p.m. and tried to use the phone. Frightened patrons were herded into a basement and the doors were locked once Ferrer left.
Court officials said Ferrer had worked as a dishwasher at the tavern for several years. Employees there declined to comment Tuesday.
Neighbor Linda McMenimen, 52, who moved into the apartment below the couple about a year ago, said the couple often fought and that she called police last year to report one particularly violent argument.
She said Ferrer "came down here and said I'd better not call the cops again because he's on parole and he murdered someone."
Another neighbor, Danielle Newton, said Realie had told her just hours before the shooting that she and Ferrer were doing well. "I know she was pregnant, and was very excited about that. She said she finally got her girl, or so she thought."
Coventry is a small town about 20 miles east of Hartford, not far from the main University of Connecticut campus.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080415/ap_on_re_us/tavern_shooting;_ylt=AtzKmStujEMgo5tq07Sb70us0NUE
Freaking low life - it is always someone else's fault
sex offender accused of shooting his pregnant girlfriend in front of their two children told police the gun went off accidentally during an argument ... Ferrer then picked up the 2-year-old and took a gun out of a filing cabinet, police said. He approached Realie and cocked the .38-caliber revolver's hammer and she tried to run out of the apartment, the report said. He told investigators he tried to hit Realie with the gun, but it went off in her face when she swung at it.
See it is all her fault ...