California man shoots wife in the head then calls police and says 'I'm now killing myself'

A man shot his wife dead then called police, reported the crime and told them he would now kill himself after leaving the door open for investigators to come in and find their bodies. According to Hanford Police Lieutenant Justin Vallin, Roger Hedrick, 64, dialled 911 on Sunday at 8:40 a.m. reporting that he had gotten into an argument with his wife Teresa.

Lt Vallin said: “He told our dispatch center that he and his wife were involved in a disturbance and that during the disturbance, she had came after him with a firearm,” Vallin said. “ He, in turn, shot her in the head and said that he would be gone by the time police arrived and that he was leaving the front door unlocked," he said, going on to give other information, including his name and address.

“Our dispatch center confirmed to him exactly what he said. He acknowledged it as well as spelled his name for us,” Vallin added. The front door was unlocked, Vallin reported, just as Hedrick had promised. Officers discovered Hedrick and his wife Teresa dead in their bedroom after they had entered. He claimed that both suffered headshots.

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Vallin claimed that no other areas of the house had been tampered with, and the cops discovered two handguns in their bedroom, close to their bodies.

According to Vallin, investigators are attempting to obtain search warrants for their phones in an effort to find out more about their relationship before Sunday. He stated that as of right now, the couple had no history of domestic abuse, no past criminal activity, and no police calls had ever been made to their residence.

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Furthermore, Vallin stated that despite the ongoing investigation, he cannot emphasize how important Hedrick's 911 call is to the detectives. He said that nobody else in the vicinity reported hearing gunfire to the police.

“If the individual wouldn’t have called, it could have been days, weeks before anybody went by the residence to locate them. And we would have never known what happened. But that call was kind of crucial. The individual, like I said, did spell his name out to us, gave us his exact address, told us what he had did, as well as told us he was leaving the front door open.”

Reports from autopsies and toxicology are now awaited by police.