Husband kills wife at doctor’s office

Associated Press

JEMISON, Ala.

A woman fighting with her husband ran into a doctor’s office and begged the staff to call the police before the man shot her dead, ran to their home nearby and holed up there during a lengthy standoff with police, officials said Monday.

The couple lived near the doctor’s office, and 24-year-old Leaj Jarvis Price apparently fled there from their home in Jemison because it was the closest place to go, police Chief Shane Fulmer said.

“The first thing she said when she came in was, ‘Call the police,’” Fulmer said. He said six to seven people — all employees, including the doctor — were in the office at the time.

Eric Heath Price, 25, followed her in and shot her in the head, then returned home, Fulmer said.

There, police talked to him over the phone and a loudspeaker. Police didn’t shoot any bullets but fired tear gas into the home, Fulmer said. The man came outside and had a gunshot wound to the head. Fulmer called it self-inflicted but said police didn’t know exactly when it happened.

Price was taken to a hospital and has been charged with murder, Fulmer said.

He said the couple have a 6-year-old son.

The boy was at school Monday.