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Friend of couple in fatal domestic violence incident says either one was bound to kill the other.
A friend of slain Fred Saiz, a 40-year-old Desert Storm veteran, and 27-year-old Brooke Hefty, the woman accused of killing Saiz, her live-in boyfriend, told the Albuquerque Journal Monday he knew the relationship was going to end up with one or the other dead.
Hefty was in custody late Monday on an open count of murder, charged with shooting Saiz once in the head, the Journal reported.
"This is a freakin' Greek tragedy. It's like something out of Shakespeare," the couple's friend Paul Rogers told the Journal.
"We were not shocked because of Fred's violence, her violence, and both of their backgrounds. The only way this relationship was going to end was with one of them ending up dead," Rogers told the Journal.
Hefty, whose frantic 911 call Sunday night can be heard here, allegedly told police that Saiz loaded a handgun, handed her the weapon and asked her to shoot him, according to court records.
Deputies were called to the couple's home in the 400 block of Robin Meadow NW at 10:56 p.m. Sunday and found Saiz dead.
Hefty's 4-year-old daughter was in the house at the time of the shooting, the Journal reported.
Hefty told investigators after her arrest that she and Saiz had been fighting earlier in the day, that Saiz had choked her and dropped a dumbbell on her foot, the Journal reported.
After the fight, she went to work, and when she returned home hours later Saiz was drunk, and when she decided to drink shots of Wild Turkey with him the two went to their bedroom where Saiz loaded a Ruger P94 pistol, then handed the gun to her and said "just shoot me," according to court records.
Police said Saiz kept about a dozen rifles and a handgun at his home, weapons that had been confiscated during an earlier domestic violence call but were later returned at Saiz' insistence.
Officers had said in earlier reports that Saiz had suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome and that friends and family told police he was having flashbacks and patrolled his yard in a "military manner," the Journal reported.
Family and friends also told police that Saiz often told people to "just shoot him" whenever he was fighting.
1:10pm 6/2/08 -- Murder Suspect, Victim ID'd: 26-year-old woman accused of shooting 40-year-old boyfriend in the head.
Brooke Hefty, 26, has been arrested and charged with the murder of her 41-year-old boyfriend, Frederick Saiz, in a fatal shooting incident around 11 p.m. Sunday at a home off Robin Meadow Road NW, north of Alameda and west of 2nd Street, according to KOB-TV.
"There was a previous dispute during the day and that may have culminated in the incident," Bernalillo County sheriff's Sgt. Pat Charlton told Eyewitness News 4.
According to a criminal complaint, Hefty told police that the argument escalated and at one point Saiz began loading a handgun and told her to shoot him, KOB-TV said.
Hefty told police she picked up the gun and pulled the trigger, the criminal complaint said.
Investigators believe Hefty used a semiautomatic handgun in the shooting, Eyewitness News 4 reported.
A young child was taken from the residence and placed in state custody, the station said.
7:25am -- Woman Held in NW ABQ Shooting Death: Suspect called 911 shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday to say she had shot man in the head.
A woman is being held this morning after a man was found dead in a home on Robin Meadow Road NW off 4th Street north of Alameda, KOB-TV is reporting.
The woman called a 911 operator shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday to say she had shot a man in the head, and when Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies arrived at the home they found the man's body, according to Eyewitness News 4.
Search warrants were executed in two residences in the area early this morning, but there is no word yet on what may have motivated the shooting, KOB-TV reported.
The name of the woman hasn't been released, and the identity of the victim is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, KOB-TV said.