Florida man, mistook fiancee for robber, shot and killed her 1 day before wedding
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On the eve of his wedding, a Florida man heard a burglar in his home, grabbed a gun and opened fire.
Tragically, the supposed intruder turned out to be his live-in fiancée - who died in front of him.
It happened about 2:30 a.m. Friday while John Tabutt, 62, was in bed at his Winter Springs home. He heard a suspicious noise and saw a figure in the dark hallway.
Thinking his girlfriend, Nancy Dinsmore, was still in bed, he pulled the trigger on his .38-caliber revolver - then collapsed in sobs when he realized she was the one prowling the house.
"I thought I had an intruder in the house," a moaning Tabutt told a 911 operator, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
"Honest to God, she looks dead," he said between sobs.
At one point, he thought he saw his fiancée take a breath.
"Hang in there, honey. Hang in there," he was heard telling her.
"We were supposed to get married. Get married this Saturday," Tabutt told the dispatcher.
Dinsmore was pronounced dead minutes after paramedics arrived.
"Right now, everything points to a tragic accident," Police Chief Kevin Brunell said, adding that investigators were awaiting forensic results.
Dinsmore's daughter said she had no hard feelings towards Tabutt.
"It was a terrible accident," Helene Dinsmore, 39, told the Daily News.
"They were a loving couple looking forward to their future. My mother had found love again after losing my father, [whom] she was married to for 36 years. She was able to go on with her life, and I was very proud of her for that."
The victim had retired from a telephone company after 30 years. She loved to read, travel and spend time with her family, relatives said.
The couple had lived together for nearly a year, but had been close for much longer, relatives said.
In the days before her scheduled wedding, Dinsmore was giddy.
"Two days and counting ... all is going well ... the roses for my table arrangements came in and the color is perrrrrrrrrrfect. ... " she wrote in a message posted Thursday on Facebook.
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Wow... just wow...
Ouch.
I feel sorry for that guy.
Oh my fucking god...
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