PLANTATION, Fla. _ A Plantation man shot his wife in the face, returned his revolver to a bedroom closet, walked to a neighbor's house and confessed that he'd killed her, police said.
When police got to the crime scene Wednesday night, Marisa Sherman was sitting upright on the living room couch. She'd clearly been shot in the face at point-blank range, according to a police report.
Sherman, 47, was pronounced dead on scene at 10:36 p.m.
Her transgression? She wouldn't stop with the disrespectful talk, Fernando De Baere told investigators at the Plantation Police Department.
De Baere, 73, is now locked up in the Broward Main Jail in downtown Fort Lauderdale. He is being held without bond on a charge of premeditated murder, records show.
The neighbor called 911 at 10:21 p.m. to report De Baere's disturbing admission.
De Baere, with blood spattered on his legs and boxer shorts, told police he and his wife had been arguing over her interactions with a former co-worker when De Baere took issue with "the way that she was talking to him," his arrest report said.
De Baere told her to stop but she kept speaking to him disrespectfully, De Baere told police, so he got his Taurus .38-caliber revolver, stood over his wife and took aim.
"She still would not listen to him," the report said.
From a distance of about 3 feet, De Baere intentionally shot his wife in the face "one or two times," the report said.
Investigators found the murder weapon in a closet in the master bedroom, exactly where De Baere told them it would be.
The firearm had two spent casings.
