Gregory Hightower, a 37-year-old Navy recruiter, shot his wife dead while she was holding their baby and talking to investigators.
Gregory shot and injured one of the two Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents that had been talking to his wife, and they both fired back, hitting him in the stomach. In addition to the infant, the couple’s 3-year-old was in their home at the time. Gregory fled the scene after taking a bullet to the stomach and escaped in his car, after which deputies shot and killed him three hours later.
The police had “previously responded to the residence as part of a ‘domestic prevention call for service for both parties claiming injury to each other,’” sheriff’s office spokesman Senior Deputy Thomas Gilliland told
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