Doorbell footage has captured the harrowing moment a woman is heard screaming "you're not dead" after allegedly shooting her boyfriend in the head at point blank range.
A woman in Maine was charged with manslaughter after a fatal shooting - horrifying audio, prosecutors say, captured the alleged incident. Olivia Babin, 20, allegedly shot her boyfriend Daniel Ford-Coates, 24, in the head in Bangor, Maine on April 2.
She is alleged to have said “Oh, don’t think I will?” before pulling the trigger. Prosecutors said Babin allegedly wanted to “scare” women in a downstairs apartment, with a friend telling police she had removed the magazine but there was a round in the chamber.
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She held up the barrel to her boyfriend’s head as a joke, but pulled the trigger. In the audio obtained by the New York Post, a gunshot be heard before a person says “oh f**k.”
The words “you’re not dead” are then heard repeatedly. A woman cal also be heard screaming “What do I do?” Police say the shooting was witnessed by two others.
Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Ackerman told a judge at a bond hearing on April 5 that Babin allegedly told them falsehoods about what had occurred. She told authorities in a police interview that she heard a loud bang and saw a friend fleeing the scene after an argument.
The friend told police that Babin had retrieved the 9mm handgun from her boyfriend’s bedroom. Bangor Police Department said Babin allegedly threw the gun into the Kenduskeag River and changed her clothes before calling 911.
Audio can be heard in a video taken from a doorbell camera (FOX ABC Maine)Paramedics rushed the man to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead. Ford-Coates' death was ruled as a homicide and an autopsy found contact burns on his skin. Babin is held at the Penobscot County jail on a $100,000 (£80,000) bail and is due in court again on June 10.
In an online obituary, Ford-Coates was described as a person who “enjoyed life to its fullest whether he was on vacation, having family time, playing video games, walking/playing with Loki his German Shepard, spending time with friends, particularly his best friend Dylan Henderson.” He also enjoyed watching and participating in sports and will be “immeasurably missed,” along with his “enormous heart and a smile just as big.”
The obituary added: " He will forever be in countless wonderful memories for all who were lucky enough to know him." The moving obituary also said his family will “never understand the grounds of his death” and is “still processing” what happened.
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