A Wisconsin man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot his wife multiple times after she returned home from a meeting with a lawyer about their pending divorce.
Guy Jerome Paider, 53, shot victim after police entered the Grafton home.
Police were called to the home late Friday afternoon on a domestic violence call, WISN reported. When they arrived, they heard the screams from a locked back bedroom and kicked the door in, ordering the occupants to show their hands. That’s when the officers heard multiple gunshots, a criminal complaint said.
Paider came out of the bedroom where the gunshots came from and surrendered, and police found the woman wounded. She was taken to Aurora Medical Center and then life-flighted to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa.
Officers found a semi-automatic handgun in the bedroom.
The victim later told police that she had been to see her lawyer on Friday to discuss the divorce. When she returned home, she said, Paider demanded to know what she wanted in the divorce, but she told him she didn’t want to discuss it in front of their daughter.
Paider sent the girl to her room and then attacked her mother, who screamed out for her daughter to “call 911.” Paider picked up the woman, carried her to the bedroom, and threw her on the floor.
“When I saw him, he opened his first drawer, where his underwear is, and he grabbed a gun,” she told police, according to the complaint. “He said, ‘Look at me, look at me, so you can see me when I shoot you.”
Police said she was shot in the abdomen, leg and groin and was in stable condition Monday afternoon.
In addition to attempted murder, Paider — who who retired from the West Allis Fire Department earlier this year, WDJT said — is charged with recklessly endangering safety.
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[Featured image: Guy Jerome Paider/Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Office]
