Left: Casey Kindt (Seward County Sheriff’s Office). Right: Jamie Hagen (Facebook).
Authorities in Nebraska say a 54-year-old man forced his way into his ex-girlfriend’s house and shot her to death before attempting to kill himself. It was just one day after he got out of jail for violating his bond conditions from a previous arrest where he allegedly assaulted her.
Casey Kindt is accused of killing 36-year-old Jamie Hagen at her home in Seward, which is about 25 miles northwest of Lincoln. According to the Nebraska State Patrol, Hagen’s 15-year-old daughter called 911 shortly before midnight Saturday at the home in the 600 block of North Second Street.
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A warrant filed Monday obtained by Law&Crime explains the sequence of events as seen by the responding officers. When cops rushed up to the home, they saw a storm door partially open. It appeared that the interior door had been forced open, cops wrote. Officers yelled for anyone inside to come out. A man, whom officers recognized as Kindt, came out with his face bleeding and a gun in a holster tucked into the front of his waistband, the affidavit said. He was suffering from a gunshot wound later determined to be self-inflicted.
Cops then searched the home and discovered Hagen on the floor of a bedroom, suffering from gunshot wounds to the forehead, arm and chest, cops wrote. She had no pulse and officers pronounced her dead. They searched another bedroom and found it locked. Hagen’s 15-year-old daughter who called 911 answered the door. She was unharmed.
Paramedics took Kindt to a hospital for “life-threatening injuries.” Troopers are maintaining custody of him as he receives medical treatment. He has not yet been charged in the case.
Police are familiar with Kindt. On Dec. 16, cops arrested him when he allegedly threatened and assaulted Hagen in front of another one of her children. A probable cause arrest affidavit said he shoved Hagen into shelving, doors and walls. He also is accused of threatening to shoot her and saying “I will deck you, I will f—ing end you.” Kindt is a military veteran and suffers from PTSD, Hagen told cops. Police arrested him for terroristic threats, domestic violence assault and child abuse. Hagen obtained a protection order against him a few days later.
But after he bonded out, he contacted Hagen through an intermediary on Jan. 4. The intermediary forwarded texts from Kindt that said he had something “important” to tell her. He allegedly discussed how he never turned her in for “child neglect and SNAP benefit fraud.” Kindt said Hagen could make the charges “go away if she wanted to,” the affidavit said. Hagen showed the messages to cops who arrested him.
A judge increased his bond to $75,000 which he posted on Friday — the day before he allegedly killed her.
Hagen and Kindt had been dating for about two years. Lincoln CBS affiliate KOLN spoke with Hagen’s father who said the couple were planning on getting married and bought a house together but the relationship started to sour.
“Things just started shifting a different way and he started getting aggressive I guess,” Charles Hagen told the outlet. “I don’t know 100% of the story and some of the hidden things, and some of the other things are starting to come out now.”
He lamented over the fact that his daughter “did everything right, and it didn’t really do any good.”
“He was put in jail twice over this and still posted bond. If he’d just stayed in there this wouldn’t have happened,” he said.
