A frantic Omaha woman called 911 Sunday to report that she had shot and killed her husband after he attacked her — and the initial investigation indicates the shooting was justified, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said.
“We'll wait until the police investigation is completed,” Kleine said Monday morning, “but preliminary indications are that it's justified.”
Lorenzo Bush, 26, died of his gunshot wounds about 11:40 p.m. Sunday, shortly after he ran out of the home at 3508 N. 55th St.
His wife, Regina Bush, was questioned by police and released Monday morning.
According to 911 and investigators' reports, Lorenzo Bush attacked his wife and choked her, ripping her shirt and pulling out clumps of her hair. She managed to get a gun that he had and shot him, according to the reports.
Two children, ages 3 and 2, were at the home, according to the 911 dispatches. Christine Coker, mother of Regina Bush, confirmed Monday morning that her daughter had been questioned by police and released.
“Thank God,” Coker said. “All I can say is ‘Thank God.' ”
Lorenzo Bush — once an amateur boxer, who had tattoos of praying hands on his forearm, a basketball on his upper arm and boxing gloves on his chest — had been the subject of at least three protection orders since 2006, all of them involving the mother of his 6-year-old daughter.
That woman, Cara Horn, wrote of harrowing encounters with Bush in which he repeatedly pulled guns on her and threatened to kill her.
In February 2010, Horn and Bush got into an argument over visitation of their daughter. Horn said Bush refused to take the girl because she was fussing and crying. As Horn drove away, Bush changed his mind, called and told her to bring the girl back.
Horn said that when she refused, Bush told her “he would blow my brains out … next time he saw me.”
After Horn threatened to file a police report, he “swore on his kids he would kill me and everyone in my house.”
In April 2007, she wrote that she was walking to her car at work when Bush and his girlfriend approached her. She and the girlfriend had words when Bush, sitting in a nearby car, pointed “a gun at me” and told the girlfriend to move.
Horn tried to call police and ran — and Bush tried to run her over, she said.
In February 2007, Bush went to Horn's house to drop something off for their daughter. The two argued and Bush began to hit her with their daughter's toy.
“When I tried to fight back, he threw me down and knocked me unconscious,” she wrote.
In October 2006, Horn wrote that Bush banged her head against the wall, “then threw me to the ground and kicked me.” In a November 2006 phone call, Bush told Horn she was “dead.” He later used his phone to send her a photo of him holding two guns.
The text under the photo: “Think about it.”
World-Herald staff writer Kevin Cole contributed to this report.
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