Murder-Suicide after abortion
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-cgrunas22sep22,0,1462825.story?coll=sfla-news-broward tells the story of a young mother who committed a horrible double crime following a crisis pregnancy and an abortion.
PLANTATION ·An enraged police officer who fatally shot her boyfriend, then turned the gun on herself, might have been upset about their decision to abort their baby a few weeks earlier, a witness told detectives.Plantation Police Officer Laura Grunas argued with her boyfriend Robert Peat on Aug. 4, and police had to tell her to leave his Plantation home. When she returned a short time later that night, Grunas killed Peat and committed suicide, police said.
Peat's friend, Plantation reserve police officer and volunteer firefighter Michael Roth, witnessed the argument and was present when Grunas came back to the house, investigators said.According to Roth's statement to police, Grunas asked Roth "Did he tell you about killing my baby?"Plantation Detective Brian Kendall's final nine-page report obtained by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Thursday said: "Roth advised that Peat had told him that when they found out she was pregnant, they decided to terminate the pregnancy. Peat was enormously upset about it due to religious beliefs, but felt that it was the right thing to do."Kendall's report closes the case.Roth said Peat had told him that since the abortion things had been getting progressively worse. Peat even had to replace his front door either the day of the shooting or the day before because they had a fight and she kicked it in, Roth told police.Peat, 31, had been a firefighter at Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue since 2000 and a Plantation volunteer firefighter for a decade.On Aug. 4, after Grunas, 30, had been ordered to leave the home, Peat wanted Roth to stay because he didn't want to be alone, Roth told detectives.Roth said he urged his friend to get a restraining order and "30 seconds after I tried to make that suggestion, his phone started ringing. ... And then she started banging on the front door."Grunas shot her way into Peat's home through the sliding glass door with her police-issued Smith & Wesson, according to Kendall's report.Roth said he "jumped onto the kitchen floor" and Grunas entered. She asked where Peat was.Roth told detectives that he told her he was trying to help them, "and I just ran through what was left of the sliding glass door and jumped a fence ... and ran until I had no more energy to run anymore, and then I hid in some trees and I called 911."Roth could not be reached Thursday for comment at the fire station. Plantation Fire-Rescue spokesman Joel Gordon said Roth was tending to personal matters and would not be available.
PLANTATION ·An enraged police officer who fatally shot her boyfriend, then turned the gun on herself, might have been upset about their decision to abort their baby a few weeks earlier, a witness told detectives.Plantation Police Officer Laura Grunas argued with her boyfriend Robert Peat on Aug. 4, and police had to tell her to leave his Plantation home. When she returned a short time later that night, Grunas killed Peat and committed suicide, police said.
Peat's friend, Plantation reserve police officer and volunteer firefighter Michael Roth, witnessed the argument and was present when Grunas came back to the house, investigators said.According to Roth's statement to police, Grunas asked Roth "Did he tell you about killing my baby?"Plantation Detective Brian Kendall's final nine-page report obtained by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Thursday said: "Roth advised that Peat had told him that when they found out she was pregnant, they decided to terminate the pregnancy. Peat was enormously upset about it due to religious beliefs, but felt that it was the right thing to do."Kendall's report closes the case.Roth said Peat had told him that since the abortion things had been getting progressively worse. Peat even had to replace his front door either the day of the shooting or the day before because they had a fight and she kicked it in, Roth told police.Peat, 31, had been a firefighter at Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue since 2000 and a Plantation volunteer firefighter for a decade.On Aug. 4, after Grunas, 30, had been ordered to leave the home, Peat wanted Roth to stay because he didn't want to be alone, Roth told detectives.Roth said he urged his friend to get a restraining order and "30 seconds after I tried to make that suggestion, his phone started ringing. ... And then she started banging on the front door."Grunas shot her way into Peat's home through the sliding glass door with her police-issued Smith & Wesson, according to Kendall's report.Roth said he "jumped onto the kitchen floor" and Grunas entered. She asked where Peat was.Roth told detectives that he told her he was trying to help them, "and I just ran through what was left of the sliding glass door and jumped a fence ... and ran until I had no more energy to run anymore, and then I hid in some trees and I called 911."Roth could not be reached Thursday for comment at the fire station. Plantation Fire-Rescue spokesman Joel Gordon said Roth was tending to personal matters and would not be available.
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