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Early in the morning on July 12, 2016, emergency personnel raced to a home in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Kimberly Reps called 911 in a state of panic, reporting that she had been shot, and both she and her husband, Robert “Rob” Reps, 54, were attacked by an unknown assailant.
“I wasn’t very far from the address, so I waited for another deputy,” Union County Sheriff’s Deputy Kaitlin Robillard recounted to Snapped, featured in a preview for a new episode airing on Sunday, August 24, at 6/5c p.m. on Oxygen.
She was soon joined by Union County Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Wilds.
“As they [authorities] approached the back door of the residence, it was ajar,” stated Union County Assistant District Attorney Mary Beth Usher. “However, there were no signs of forced entry. And they made their way into the home.”
Inside the residence, sheriff’s deputies found Kimberly on the floor, bleeding, with a gunshot to her left shoulder. She was moaning for help.
When first responders inquired who had shot Kimberly, she stated she didn’t know due to the darkness and her discomfort. She also mentioned that she was unaware of her husband’s whereabouts.
What happened to Rob Reps?
Deputies proceeded upstairs, noting blood on the steps and a wall. In the master bedroom, they discovered Rob Reps in bed, suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. He was lying on the bed, his head resting on the pillow.
“It was a lot of blood, brain matter, skull pieces on the headboard of the bed,” said Wilds.
Rob was still alive but fighting to survive. “He was agonal breathing, which means that it was ineffective in delivering the appropriate amount of oxygen to his body to survive,” Usher explained.
Kim was taken to a hospital, while Rob was taken to a helipad in order to be flown to Charlotte for medical care. “But when he got to the helipad, he was pronounced dead,” said Brian Huncke, former Union County Sheriff’s Captain.
Was this a botched home invasion that ended with a woman wounded and her husband dead? Or was it something else? That’s what investigators were tasked with figuring out.
“You don’t know who these people are. You don’t know their history,” said Robillard. “You don’t know if they were targeted, or if it was random.”
Find out more about the shocking identity of the shooter and the motive on Snapped, airing August 24 at 6/5c p.m. on Oxygen.
