Family remembers woman shot and killed by husband before deadly Indy police chase

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A woman, named Tina, was shot by her husband of over 30 years, according to her family. The shooting happened Thursday morning at a northeast east side home and led to a police chase that left the husband dead.

I-Team 8 spent the afternoon speaking to Tina’s family as they remembered her legacy.

Around 7:20 a.m., Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers found Tina critically wounded at a home on North Ritter Avenue near the intersection of 46th Street and Arlington Avenue. Tina was taken to the hospital, where she later died.

“She had been staying over here for a few days, you know, just relax, from life and reality,” Tina’s close friend Monica Gaither said, referring to the northeast side home.

The violent morning marked the end to an over 30-year marriage. Gaither says Tina was staying at her sister’s home to escape some of the domestic violence she was facing at the hands of her husband.

“With domestic violence, you never see and you could never underestimate anybody as well, because we all deal with mental illness in some shape, form or fashion,” Gaither said. “I didn’t see it coming.”

“She was just a kind and loving person,” Tina’s nephew D’Marco Wilson said. “Anything I asked her for, she never told me no, she was just kind and lovely.”

Those that loved her, including Wilson, want her to be remembered not for how she died, but for how she lived. She was a mom to two boys and four grandchildren.

“Her son had passed away a couple years ago,” Wilson said. “Then she’s got another one that’s older, he’s still alive.”

Her loved ones say they knew Tina was facing domestic violence, but did not know just how bad it had become, or where it would lead.

“Life sometimes can happen, and if you see signs in a domestic dispute…just run, just run, because one sign can be the sign of many bad signs, you know what I mean, nobody’s seen it coming,” Gaither said.

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