Directories
Quick Searches
Find a Job
Quick Search
For Employers
Yahoo! HotJobs Local Search
Man carrying flowers guns down woman in Mission Valley doctor's office
By: Wire Reports | ∞
SAN DIEGO - A gunman carrying a bouquet of roses confronted his pregnant girlfriend at her Mission Valley workplace and shot her to death today, according to authorities.
About an hour after the mid-afternoon shooting, which left a second person superficially wounded, Roger McDowell, 34, of San Diego, called police from a City Heights apartment to say he had killed Dawna Denize Wright, 31, of San Diego, police said.
Officers took McDowell into custody about 3 p.m. at the residential complex on Towle Court, near 52nd Street.
McDowell was booked into San Diego County Jail on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Wright and McDowell had what witnesses described as an "on-again, off- again" relationship, according to Lt. Jeff Sferra of the San Diego Police Department's homicide unit.
McDowell entered a fourth-floor doctor's office in a business complex at 3517 Camino del Rio South about 2 p.m. and approached Wright, who worked as a receptionist for the physician, authorities said.
Seeing the flowers, Wright asked if they were for her, at which point McDowell pulled a pistol and opened fire, according to police.
Wright died at the scene. Relatives told KNSD she was three months pregnant and the suspect was the father.
The shooting also left a man with a superficial graze wound that did not require hospitalization, Sferra told reporters.
After firing four shots, the assailant, described as being in his late 30s or early 40s, calmly walked out of the building and left the area, possibly in a gray Mercury Sable or a similar-looking car, a dispatcher said.
McDowell called police and said he had just killed his girlfriend. Officers took him into custody without incident.
Patrol officers evacuated the building and searched it and the surrounding area, guns drawn, before getting word of the arrest.
More Stories
- Man carrying flowers guns down woman in Mission Valley doctor's office
- Appeals court: County does not have to pay higher benefits
- Former Children's Hospital employee pleads guilty to molesting children
- 'Dangerous and violent' gang member imprisoned for Oceanside murder
- ATM card-skimming crimes under investigation
Advertisement
Shakira wrote on Jun 13, 2007 7:47 AM:Dawnna was also a mother of 3 children and Roger murdered her on their daughter's 8th birthday...
foursquare wrote on Jun 13, 2007 12:37 PM:Some men go to extremes to control the woman in their lives -- with ending the life of the woman as the most extreme method of this control. Identifying all these social madmen may prove impossible, but surely spiritual advisors, psychologists, social scientists, medical doctors, and insightful others could develop a useful profile of the typical social madman. The schools could alert young girls and older ones to this profile, with the obvious message to avoid such monsters. It takes two to tango. If aware females opted out of this deadly dance involving social madmen, then perhaps modern civilization would over time achieve a saner social converse. Meanwhile, all you females out there must open your eyes to the signs of stunted social development in men who wish to befriend or woo you. In short, stay away from male social dummies.
- Burst pipe causes 70-foot-deep sink hole in Carlsbad (2422)
- REGION: State green power plan will cost consumers billions (1419)
- HOUSING: Fraud victims struggle to regain cash, credit (1367)
- VISTA: Grocer brothers suspected of threatening former butcher (1009)
- REGION: Talk of new immigration bill gets mixed reaction (974)
Advertisement