A 57-year-old Florida man is being held without bond after he shot his girlfriend in the head on Sunday when she reportedly ended their engagement.
Timothy Hyder and Natalie “Dawn” Du’Mee were drinking at a football watch party when they got into an argument. The argument continued at home, where Du’Mee decided to end their engagement and returned her ring to Hyder.
Hyder got a gun from a closet, came back to the porch, and asked Du’Mee if she was serious about breaking off the engagement. When she confirmed, he shot her in the head.
Du’Mee’s daughter, who was upstairs watching a movie, heard the gunshot and found her mother wounded. Hyder instructed her to call 911.
According to the Osceola News Gazette, Hyder told the daughter, “I blew her brains out.”
When police arrived, Hyder, 57, told them he just “snapped,” WKMG reported, although he had taken the time to go upstairs, retrieve his gun, come back downstairs, and ask the Du’Mee if she really didn’t want to marry him before he “snapped” and shot her.
Police said the gun used to kill Du’Mee was left in plain sight on the kitchen counter.
Hyder is being held without bond.
