A dishonest husband has been charged with gunning down his spouse as their youngsters frantically referred to as 911 — simply days after the mom-of-four kicked him out of their house and hit him with a restraining order.
Cecil Mains, 47 is accused of murdering his 44-year-old spouse, Jerri Mains, in entrance of their terrified children — ages 19, 17, 14, and 10 — of their Indianapolis house on Dec. 28, police mentioned.
Dispatchers obtained a number of 911 calls from the couple’s terrified youngsters because the violence was unfolding — with one of many children begging for assist, saying “My dad is taking pictures my mother” and “I can’t dwell with out her.”
“My dad simply shot my mother twice… He shot her in the home and within the driveway,” one of many couple’s different youngsters added in a separate 911 name.
The slain sufferer, who was found by cops within the driveway, later died within the hospital after being shot twice within the chest, police mentioned.
The lethal saga allegedly unfolded after the spouse had apparently caught Mains dishonest on her and deliberate to go away him, courtroom paperwork obtained by WTHR confirmed.
She filed a safety order on Christmas Day after Mains allegedly assaulted her with kitchen tongs the evening earlier than and threatened to kill her a number of instances.
Simply days after booting him from the household house, Mains allegedly stormed in, grabbed a locked-up gun and opened fireplace on his spouse, cops mentioned.
He fled the scene in his pickup truck within the wake of the taking pictures however was nabbed close by throughout a visitors cease.
“The information of this case are devastating,” Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears mentioned in a press release.
“As we transfer ahead with the prison proceedings, our ideas stay with Jeri’s 4 youngsters, who’ve endured an unthinkable tragedy and at the moment are dealing with an extremely tough journey forward.”
Mains was slapped with a homicide cost on Tuesday.
Jeri, in the meantime, was described in her obituary because the “most devoted mom.”
“She cherished her youngsters a lot that in every part that she did, she put her youngsters’s consideration first,” the tribute acknowledged.
“Jeri cherished her household and mates fiercely. She was the individual you’d need in your nook, as she would do every part for these she cared about.”
