You took my husband’: 911 call captures voices, gunshots in fatal Helena, Mont., shooting

[Ptah]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/you-took-my-husband-911-call-captures-voices-gunshots-in-fatal-helena-mont-shooting/2011/10/14/gIQAj3rkkL_story.html

‘You took my husband’: 911 call captures voices, gunshots in fatal Helena, Mont., shooting

HELENA, Mont. — A 911 call captured two women’s voices saying, “Don’t do it,” and,
“You took my husband,” before gunshots rang out in a shooting that left a man and a
woman dead in a Helena apartment.

The line went dead, and the dispatcher at the other end put out the alert to officers:
“Shots fired! Shots fired!”

Seven minutes later, another 911 call came from the same address, and a woman said:
“I loved you with all my heart. It’s because of that b----. You traded me for her, Joe. I loved you.”

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The shooting happened just two days after Joseph Gable filed for divorce from his wife of 25 years
and three weeks after he attempted to obtain a protection order from her after she came to Helena
from her home in Maryland. District Judge Dorothy McCarter denied that request,
writing in her order, “No personal danger or threat involved.”

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Looks like the judge got this one wrong.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Protection orders are rarely honored where needed most

[Ptah]

3. We'll never know if this one would have worked.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. Pretty slim that it would have...

what is a court order going to do that a 1st degree murder conviction wouldn't have?

[saras]

8. Allow someone to stop her before the murder, obviously

[Fumesucker]

2. Umm.. I thought it was only men who do this sort of thing?

:shrug:

[Ptah]

5. Did you really think that?

[Fumesucker]

6. Let me put it this way...

I've heard that said quite a number of times here on DU..

[Ptah]

10. Thanks for that remarkable perspective.

[Fumesucker]

11. Don't thank me..

Thank those DUers who told me that.

[Ptah]

12. No, thank you for remembering those that pissed you off.

:hug:

[Fumesucker]

13. ...

:hi:

[Poll_Blind]

4. No reason for the judge not to grant at least a temporary restraining order.

While it might not have stopped the killer, at least the victims would have been able to call the police immediately if they'd seen the killer pull up in a car, say, because they'd be violating the restraining order.

BTW, this happens against women all the time and it's horrible. Men aren't somehow immune from the same sort of disturbed vendettas that some people carry.

I find it exceedingly odd that, especially since the killer had been away for several years in a different state, that the Judge didn't give her sudden reappearance and behavior due consideration.

PB

[Fantastic Anarchist]

9. l didn't read while,story

pissed....