Court record: Man admits to fatally shooting estranged wife near Tolleson
A man has been accused of shooting and killing his estranged wife Monday, according to a Maricopa County Superior Court document.
Brian Brooks, 42, told police he shot and killed his 42-year-old wife, Kine Ricard, according to the court record.
Brooks held his wife at gunpoint in the driveway of their Tempe apartment and demanded she drive to the home they used to live in together near Tolleson, Phoenix police said in the court document.
Once at the home near Tolleson, a witness told police they heard four or five gunshots and a woman running down the driveway before collapsing. The witness then saw a man described as Brooks enter the garage of the home with a gun in his hand, according to court papers.
Ricard was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead, the document said.
Brooks told police that he fled from the home and had his son pick him up near 75th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road. His son then drove him to the Tempe Police Department, where he turned himself in, police said. Brooks later was transported to the Phoenix Police Department.
In his interview with Phoenix police, Brooks said he kidnapped his wife at gunpoint in Tempe while he questioned her about an alleged affair with another man, the court document said.
Brooks told police that he forced her go with him to the home near Tolleson where they had lived together, where he told her he wanted to "hurt (her) really bad, the way she had hurt him,'' according to court records. He told police he shot the woman at the house, then fled, records said
In the document, police said Brooks admitted that what he did was wrong and took full responsibility for his actions.
Brooks and Ricard were married for 17 years before separating and had three children in common, according to the court record.
Brooks was booked on Tuesday and faces charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault, interference of judicial proceeding and possessive of a weapon by a prohibitive person, according to the court document.
His next court date will be on Aug. 29.
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