[Wi] Deputy Hutchins, who shot his girlfriend & 12 year old neighbor who helped her, has a violent history

...AN OFF-DUTY MILWAUKEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTY WORRIED HE’D LOSE HIS JOB IF HIS GIRLFRIEND CALLED POLICE DURING A DOMESTIC DISPUTE SHOT HER AND A 12-YEAR-OLD NEIGHBOR GIRL BEHIND THE DOOR OF AN APARTMENT WHERE THE VICTIM RAN FOR HELP...

[WI] Deputy Hutchins shoots girlfriend and 12 year old. OIDV discussed.

Video: ...Domestic abuse victim advocates say even when there are warning signs, when the abuser is in law enforcement, the cases can be especially difficult. "Law enforcement officers have access to more resources, more power, and this issue really is about power and control. You know when I read the statement, 'I'll make it my mission in my life to hurt you' - what that means for a law enforcement official is they DO have the power. They have institutionalized power behind them... As a community, ordinary citizins, we should all be concerned about people who have issues about power and control who are law enforcement. Absolutely, because they make us ALL less safe"...

[WI] Deputy Thomas Hutchin's 12 year old victim tells God she forgives him

12 year old Karess Patton: "I didn't know he was like that. So I just tell God, I forgive him."

[WI] Deputy Hutchins shoots girlfriend and 12yo
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...CONFRONTED ABOUT THE NEIGHBOR'S DOOR, HE ADMITTED TO SHOOTING IT, POLICE SAID, BECAUSE HE WANTED SOMEONE TO OPEN IT SO HE COULD CHECK ON HIS GIRLFRIEND'S CONDITION. HE SAID HE DID NOT MEAN TO SHOOT ANYONE AND DID NOT KNOW HE HAD SHOT A CHILD...

SHERIFF'S DEPUTY ARRESTED IN DOUBLE SHOOTING
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
By Linda Spice lspice@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Dec. 16, 2008
[Excerpts] A Milwaukee County sheriff's deputy was being held Tuesday on a possible charge of attempted homicide in connection with a double shooting Monday night that wounded a 31-year-old woman and a 12-year-old neighbor girl, police records show. A neighbor of the woman said the victim had pounded on her door before fleeing to the girl's apartment, and the neighbor described the incident as "chaos"... Sherrelia King, who lives next door to the woman who was shot, said she heard "arguing and the gunshots and the glass shattering, and then she must have come over here, because I heard banging on my door." But when she got to the door, nobody was there. She said she heard more shooting after the initial shots were fired... The 12-year-old lives in an adjacent building about 15 feet away. "That had to be traumatic for that baby, that child," said King of the girl. "You just go to the door and the wild, wild west comes in"... Roy Felber, president of the Milwaukee Deputy Sheriffs' Association, said Tuesday afternoon that he and association vice president Rich Graber were on their way to speak with the arrested deputy... "I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE HE'S ALL RIGHT, THAT HE HAS WHAT HE NEEDS," FELBER SAID. "AS FAR AS ANYTHING ELSE, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. IT WAS OFF-DUTY. THAT'S BETWEEN HIM AND HIS ATTORNEY." [Full article here]

12-YEAR-OLD SHOOTING VICTIM SPEAKS OUT
CBS58
December 17, 2008
EXCLUSIVE: Girl allegedly shot by an off-duty sheriff's deputy is speaking only with CBS 58 - A 12-year-old child allegedly shot by an off-duty sheriff's deputy is speaking only with CBS 58. Karress Patton was shot three times after 39-year-old deputy Thomas Hutchins allegedly fired several shots from his service weapon into her apartment Monday night... [Full article here]

..."DEPUTY THOMAS HUTCHINS THREATENED TO TAKE MY LIFE." SHE CONTINUED, "HE DOESN'T CARE, HE WILL KILL ME"...

CHARGES EXPECTED TOMORROW AGAINST DEPUTY
Today's TMJ4, WI
Melanie Stout
Dec 17, 2008
A Milwaukee county sheriff's deputy arrested for shooting his girlfriend in the face has resigned. He's expected to be charged Thursday for Monday night's shooting near 91st and Brown Deer... We have also learned that Deputy Thomas Hutchins has had a history of violence. HIS EX-WIFE FILED A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST HIM FOUR YEARS AGO. IN IT SHE WROTE, "DEPUTY THOMAS HUTCHINS THREATENED TO TAKE MY LIFE." SHE CONTINUED, "HE DOESN'T CARE, HE WILL KILL ME." HIS EX-WIFE WROTE FURTHER, "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO I TELL, NO ONE CAN PROTECT ME. HE WOULD MAKE IT HIS MISSION IN LIFE TO HURT ME." SHE CONTINUED, "I SAID THAT'S NOT GOING TO MAKE OUR DAUGHTER HAPPY WITH ME DEAD AND YOU IN JAIL. HE SAID HE WILL DO IT AND HE WON'T GET CAUGHT." ACCORDING TO ARREST RECORDS, HUTCHINS WAS ARRESTED FIVE YEARS AGO FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE AND FOR BATTERY. THE CHARGES WERE LATER DROPPED... [Full article here]

...THE WOMAN ATTEMPTED TO CALL 9-1-1. AT THAT POINT, SHE SAYS HUTCHINS BEGGED HER NOT TO CALL THE POLICE SAYING HE WOULD LOSE HIS JOB. HE EVEN RIPPED THE PHONE OUT OF THE WALL..."YOU TAKE MY JOB, I'LL TAKE YOUR LIFE"...

FORMER SHERIFF'S DEPUTY CHARGED
TMJ4
By Jon Byman
December 18, 2008
Prosecutors have filed attempted murder and reckless injury charges against a former Milwaukee County Sheriff's Deputy. Deputy Thomas Hutchins is accused of shooting a woman with whom he has a child and shooting a 12-year-old girl who lived in a home where the first victim ran for help. In total he faces three charges: attempted murder, reckless injury and endangering safety. If convicted on all three, Hutchins faces as many as 95 years in prison. According to the criminal complaint, Hutchins got into a fight with the mother of his child over the way she had disciplined their daughter. The fight got violent with Hutchins hitting the woman at one point. The woman attempted to call 9-1-1. At that point, she says Hutchins begged her not to call the police saying he would lose his job. He even ripped the phone out of the wall. According to the complaint, when the victim continued to attempt to call 9-1-1, Hutchins pulled out his gun pointed it at her and said, "you take my job, I'll take your life." Hutchins then fired at the victim, hitting her in the face. She ran next door and a 12-year-old girl at a neighboring home let her in. SHE YELLED FOR THE GIRL TO CLOSE AND LOCK THE DOOR, WHICH THE GIRL DID. AT THAT POINT, HUTCHINS FIRED MORE SHOTS INTO THE HOME. At least four of those shots hit the little girl in her leg and hand. Hutchins has resigned his position. [LINK]


...MARY HUTCHINS CLAIMED THAT HER EX-HUSBAND HAD THREATENED HER FOR FOUR YEARS AND SAID HE'D MAKE HER SEE HER MOTHER, WHO DIED IN 2004....

DEPUTY NO STRANGER TO CONFLICT MAN'S EX-WIFE GOT RESTRAINING ORDER
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
Author: MEG JONES mjones@journalsentinel.com
Thursday, December 18, 2008
[Excerpts] A Milwaukee County sheriff’s deputy arrested in the double shooting that wounded a woman and a 12-year-old girl threatened to kill his ex-wife two years ago, according to a temporary restraining order issued against him. In December 2006, Thomas D. Hutchins , now 39, was ordered by a Milwaukee County circuit judge not to phone or threaten his former wife, Mary Hutchins , now 35, and to stay at least 200 feet away from her and her home. Mary Hutchins wrote in the petition for the temporary restraining order that Thomas Hutchins threatened to take her life. "On the voice mail he said he would (expletive) me up he doesn’t care he will kill me. It doesn’t matter who I tell, no one can protect me," Mary Hutchins wrote. "He would make it his mission in life to hurt me." Mary Hutchins claimed that her ex-husband had threatened her for four years and said he’d make her see her mother, who died in 2004. Thomas Hutchins , a 12-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, was in custody Wednesday on a possible charge of attempted homicide. Milwaukee police said a 31-year-old woman was shot in the cheek after a domestic argument in the 8800 block of N. Swan Road on Monday night. The woman, described by police as Hutchins ’ girlfriend, ran to the 12-year-old girl’s apartment, where the child was shot in the leg. Hutchins does not live with the woman who was shot, but they have a child who is less than 2 years old, police said... [Full article here]


...THEN HE POINTED HIS GLOCK HANDGUN AT HER AND STATED, "YOU TAKE MY JOB, I'LL TAKE YOUR LIFE," ACCORDING TO THE COMPLAINT. HE FIRED TWICE, THE COMPLAINT SAYS. SHE FELT PAIN IN HER FACE AND RAN...

DEPUTY CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE HE FIRED THROUGH DOOR AND HIT WOMAN, GIRL, COMPLAINT SAYS
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
LINDA SPICE lspice@journalsentinel.com
Friday, December 19, 2008
An off-duty Milwaukee County sheriff’s deputy worried he’d lose his job if his girlfriend called police during a domestic dispute shot her and a 12-year-old neighbor girl behind the door of an apartment where the victim ran for help, according to a complaint filed Thursday. Thomas D. Hutchins , 39, is charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless injury and endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon in connection with Monday’s shooting in the 8800 block of N. Swan Road. According to the complaint: A 31-year-old woman told police Hutchins became upset while visiting her home when she disciplined their child. They argued and Hutchins struck her in the face, the woman told police. She told Hutchins to leave, but he refused and she began to call 911. He begged her not to call, then pulled the phone out of the wall and broke it. Then he pointed his Glock handgun at her and stated, "You take my job, I’ll take your life," according to the complaint. He fired twice, the complaint says. She felt pain in her face and ran to a neighbor’s home. The girl had let her in and then closed and locked the door when the woman heard multiple gunshots. The girl was hit three times in her right thigh and suffered a graze wound to her right hand. Hutchins later told police he had been drinking brandy and champagne. He said the woman was upset with her sister and when he tried to calm her down she struck him in the head with a candlestick. He feared for his safety and shot twice. He said he didn’t know if he had shot the woman. Hutchins said he then drove to his mother’s house. After he was confronted about the neighbor’s door, he admitted to shooting it, police said, because he wanted someone to open it so he could check on his girlfriend’s condition. He said he did not mean to shoot anyone and did not know he had shot a child. Hutchins is being held in the Waukesha County Jail. He has resigned from the sheriff’s office, said department spokeswoman Kim Brooks. [LINK]