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Police: Girl saw dad beat mom to death
Euless: Man said to have dropped off child, then stabbed himself
08:15 PM CDT on Thursday, August 11, 2005
By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News
A Euless man beat his wife to death with a hammer, dropped their 7-year-old daughter off with her grandmother, returned home and attempted to stab himself to death, police said.
Investigators believe that the little girl saw her father, Johnny Omorogieva, 45, attack her mother, Isatu, 35, in the family's apartment in the 1600 block of El Camino Real on Wednesday.
Euless police filed a murder case against Mr. Omorogieva with the Tarrant County district attorney's office on Thursday afternoon. He was being treated for nonlife-threatening wounds at Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital, police said. Hospital officials would not acknowledge that he was a patient.
The girl told police that the incident began as her mother was preparing to take her shopping for school supplies. Her father then sent her upstairs.
According to an arrest warrant, the girl then heard her mother screaming, "Don't kill me!" She went back downstairs and saw her father striking her mother "twenty times with the hammer."
He then took the girl and drove to her grandmother's apartment. The grandmother told police she became suspicious after the pair arrived. She told police that Mr. Omorogieva said his wife was waiting in the car as he washed his bloody hands and washed blood off his daughter's feet.
The grandmother then called other family members, who met police at the apartment.
Officers kicked in the locked door about 7 p.m. and found Mrs. Omorogieva dead. They recovered the hammer. Lying nearby in the same downstairs room was Mr. Omorogieva.
"Johnny was on the floor with a large kitchen knife stuck in his abdomen," said Assistant Chief Harland Westmoreland.
According to the arrest warrant, he told police, "I killed her, just let me die."
Officers also found a long, rambling suicide note in the apartment.
"We can discern some things from the note, but as part of the investigative process, we're going to keep some things close to the vest," he said.
Earlier this year, police responded to a call by Mr. Omorogieva, who asked them how he could have the locks changed to keep his wife out, he said. Officers referred him to apartment management, he said.
Police: Girl saw dad beat mom to death
Euless: Man said to have dropped off child, then stabbed himself
08:15 PM CDT on Thursday, August 11, 2005
By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News
A Euless man beat his wife to death with a hammer, dropped their 7-year-old daughter off with her grandmother, returned home and attempted to stab himself to death, police said.
Investigators believe that the little girl saw her father, Johnny Omorogieva, 45, attack her mother, Isatu, 35, in the family's apartment in the 1600 block of El Camino Real on Wednesday.
Euless police filed a murder case against Mr. Omorogieva with the Tarrant County district attorney's office on Thursday afternoon. He was being treated for nonlife-threatening wounds at Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital, police said. Hospital officials would not acknowledge that he was a patient.
The girl told police that the incident began as her mother was preparing to take her shopping for school supplies. Her father then sent her upstairs.
According to an arrest warrant, the girl then heard her mother screaming, "Don't kill me!" She went back downstairs and saw her father striking her mother "twenty times with the hammer."
He then took the girl and drove to her grandmother's apartment. The grandmother told police she became suspicious after the pair arrived. She told police that Mr. Omorogieva said his wife was waiting in the car as he washed his bloody hands and washed blood off his daughter's feet.
The grandmother then called other family members, who met police at the apartment.
Officers kicked in the locked door about 7 p.m. and found Mrs. Omorogieva dead. They recovered the hammer. Lying nearby in the same downstairs room was Mr. Omorogieva.
"Johnny was on the floor with a large kitchen knife stuck in his abdomen," said Assistant Chief Harland Westmoreland.
According to the arrest warrant, he told police, "I killed her, just let me die."
Officers also found a long, rambling suicide note in the apartment.
"We can discern some things from the note, but as part of the investigative process, we're going to keep some things close to the vest," he said.
Earlier this year, police responded to a call by Mr. Omorogieva, who asked them how he could have the locks changed to keep his wife out, he said. Officers referred him to apartment management, he said.
