A man from Wisconsin faces charges of attempted murder after allegedly shooting his wife multiple times following her return from a legal meeting regarding their impending divorce.
Identified as Guy Jerome Paider, 53, the suspect reportedly opened fire after law enforcement officials entered the couple’s residence in Grafton.
Authorities responded to the home late Friday afternoon, prompted by a domestic violence report, as detailed by WISN. Upon arrival, officers were met with distressing cries from behind a locked bedroom door. They forced entry and instructed those inside to reveal their hands. At that moment, several gunshots rang out, according to court documents.
Paider emerged from the room where the shots were fired and surrendered to the police, who discovered his wife injured. She was initially taken to Aurora Medical Center before being airlifted to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa for further treatment.
Inside the bedroom, officers located a semi-automatic pistol.
The injured woman later informed the police that she had visited her attorney earlier that day to talk about the divorce. Upon her return, Paider allegedly questioned her about the divorce’s terms, but she declined to discuss them in the presence of their daughter.
Paider sent the girl to her room and then attacked her mother, who screamed out for her daughter to “call 911.” Paider picked up the woman, carried her to the bedroom, and threw her on the floor.
“When I saw him, he opened his first drawer, where his underwear is, and he grabbed a gun,” she told police, according to the complaint. “He said, ‘Look at me, look at me, so you can see me when I shoot you.”
Police said she was shot in the abdomen, leg and groin and was in stable condition Monday afternoon.
In addition to attempted murder, Paider — who who retired from the West Allis Fire Department earlier this year, WDJT said — is charged with recklessly endangering safety.
