Triple homicide leaves ex-wife dead after protection request denied
Before she and two others were shot dead near Ardmore on Sunday, Debra Ann Rivera twice had asked a judge to order her ex-husband to surrender his guns because of alleged abuse.
The request was denied both times.
According to the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office, Darwin Brazier, 43, used a semi-automatic SKS rifle with a high-capacity magazine to shoot his ex-wife and two other victims multiple times and then shot himself to death near his home in Madison County.
In addition to 41-year-old Rivera, the Sheriff’s Office said Brazier killed her husband Radex Rivera, 41; and their roommate, Timothy James Hayward-Boger, 59.
Deputies responded to a call at 27774 Pinedale Road near Ardmore at 1:44 p.m. Sunday, according to a statement by the Sheriff's Office. The caller "advised dispatchers she had received a text from Brazier saying he had just killed his ex-wife, her husband and a man named Tim and he was going to kill himself," according to the statement.
Brazier fired 30 high-powered rounds at the scene, the Sheriff's Office said, then headed to Madison County.
Beginning about 2:40 p.m., Madison County deputies assisted in the search for Brazier using K-9 units and then a SWAT unit.
Lt. Donnie Shaw, public information officer at the Madison County Sheriff's Office, said a car owned by Brazier was found near Macedonia Road in Madison County. The SWAT unit set up a perimeter and began a grid search.
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