Posted on 10/15/2011 7:26:24 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
HELENA - A Helena man who was shot to death Thursday morning was denied an order of protection last month and filed for divorce two days before his estranged wife was charged with killing him.
The Independent Record reports 48-year-old Joseph Andrew Gable asked District Judge Dorothy McCarter for a temporary order of protection from Michelle Coller Gable on Sept. 20, alleging she was stalking him.
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(AP) 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.”
The quotes from court documents and a police dispatch log provided new details into the Thursday morning slayings of Joseph Andrew Gable, 48, and Sunday Cooley Bennett, 50, at Gable’s home. Gable’s estranged wife, Michelle Coller Gable, appeared in court Friday to face two counts of deliberate homicide.
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.”
http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S2329396.shtml?cat=10104
On Sept. 20, Joseph Gable sought a temporary protection order from his wife, saying that he and his Michelle Gable were separated but that she had shown up in Helena from her home in Clinton, Md.
He alleged that his wife was stalking him and then confronted him at his apartment while he was trying to change the locks. He said she threw a laptop computer down the stairs, tried to block him from leaving the apartment and prevented him from driving away because her rental car was parked behind his vehicle.
“She has been out of Montana on the East Coast in Maryland for over two years, came back unannounced and is trying to disrupt my life anyway she can, apparently,” he wrote in court documents.
He said his wife didn’t have any firearms that he knew of, but he accused her of intimidation and holding him against his will, along with stalking. He asked that McCarter order Michelle Gable to stay at least 1,500 feet away from his home or office. McCarter denied the request the next day.
http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S2329396.shtml?cat=10104
His wife ends up a drug addict and you think he should look in the mirror....thats not a rational remark. Just for the sake of the kids, he should get the divorce...the man is not always the guilty one...
Sunday Bennett is associated with Houston Gem and Mineral Society with the role of Director .
Sunday Bennett has 9 known relationships including Paul McGarry, Terry Brawner and Phyllis George and is located in Rosenberg, TX.
Source: Texas Secretary of State last refreshed Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The silly part of this notion is the assumption this woman would have honored a restraining order.
Doesn’t hurt to get one. I suppose in a few cases it might actually do some good, but someone determined to commit double murder isn’t going to stop because you present them with a court order.
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