A public servant is dead in Florida after what law enforcement believe is a murder-suicide that ended with a blazing inferno.
Gwen Bass-Kemp, 71, worked as a billing specialist for Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, authorities said. On Thursday, she was shot and killed by Richard Kenneth McDonald, 71, who later shot and killed himself.
The victim and her suspected killer were a couple, friends told Miami-based ABC affiliate WPLG. They reportedly lived together for years in the house on NW 27th Terrace in the Lake Aire neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale. By Thursday night, that house had been burnt to disuse.
A telling 911 call came in at around 8:30 p.m. that day.
Bass-Kemp’s son relayed the coming violence in the call released by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department on Friday.
“I went to go visit my mom, and I walked in on my mom’s boyfriend, and he sat there…he pulled a gun out on me…like he is a military vet…I know he has a license to carry or whatever,” the victim’s son says.
“Shut up, dude!” the caller can be heard saying at another point.” The only reason I’m leaving is because he pulled a gun on me!”
As officers arrived, McDonald grabbed a gun, holed up inside the residence, and then set it on fire, police said.
“The suspect, who barricaded himself, exited the home, and he shot himself in the front area of the home,” FLPD spokesperson Detective Ali Adamson told WPLG. “The adult female was inside of the home.”
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