Inset: Bradley Frye (Pottawatomie County Jail). Background: Home in Tecumseh, Oklahoma, where Frye allegedly murdered his wife. (KFOR)
An Oklahoma man is in jail after he allegedly shot his wife in the face with a 12-guage shotgun and then claimed she died by suicide.
Bradley Frye, 31, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife Sara Frye. A probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime says Bradley Frye rushed to his neighbor’s house shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Friday and said his wife had shot herself at their home in the 400 block of E. Beech Street in Tecumseh, a suburb of Oklahoma City.
“When the officers arrived, the scene looked like everything other than a suicide,” Tecumseh police Chief JR Kidney told local NBC affiliate KFOR.
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For starters, it appeared as if there had been a struggle at the home, cops said. A kitchen table was split in half as if someone had thrown it. There were also other broken items strewed around the house, the affidavit said. Frye had also concocted at least two stories about how his wife ended up dead. First, he said he walked into a room to see his wife pull the shotgun trigger. But as cops were going to test him for gunshot residue on his hands, he changed his tune and said he and his wife were fighting over the shotgun when it went off, killing her, cops wrote.
“Immediately our officers notified our investigator who came to the scene and agreed that this did not look like a suicide,” Kidney told the TV station.
Cops recovered her journal which said she was planning on leaving her husband because he was “treating her poorly,” per the affidavit.
Detectives also spoke with Sara Frye’s father who reportedly described the marital problems between the two. Things had gotten bad enough that the Frye children were removed from the home for their safety, the affidavit said. Sara Frye’s father said he was planning on staying at the home that night to diffuse the situation. He said he felt his son-in-law had cooled down enough where he could leave to buy some flea medicine for the dog and Taco Bell for dinner, cops wrote. When he returned to the home, he saw all the cops responding to the shooting.
Bradley Frye also allegedly filled the wound on his wife’s face with petroleum jelly. Cops took him to the police station where he declined to make a statement and asked for a lawyer.
KFOR’s video from the scene shows the home had a sign with a picture of a gun that said “WARNING Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.”
Per cops, he is a diagnosed schizophrenic and was drinking the night in question. He’s at the Pottawatomie County Jail without bond. His next court date is scheduled for Sept. 30.
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