SUGARCREEK TOWNSHIP — New documents are providing more of a timeline as to the discovery of a 25-year-old woman who had been killed as part of a double murder-suicide.
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News Center 7 checked the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA) website and found that Sugarcreek Township Police Sergeant Doug Evans, who was the first to respond to one of the murder scenes on Saturday morning, resigned on Wednesday. The database did not list a reason for his resignation.
Dispatch records for the department, released through Greene County Central Dispatch, back up what neighbors have told our team: police left United States Air Force 1st Lieutenant Jaime Gustitus’ condo on Honey Tree Place before coming back, and that’s when a large investigation began.
The document obtained by News Center 7 shows that a 911 call came in at 2:02 a.m. on Saturday.
“There was people out on the patio, a gentleman, and he was trying to get in her door,” the 911 caller told a dispatcher.
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The first officers arrived at the scene at 2:05 a.m. They did not find the man, but did get information about the woman who lived in the condo at 2:37 a.m. The documents and radio traffic confirmed that an officer tried to contact Gustitus, but didn’t get an answer and left a message.
The call log confirms that officers left the scene, showing that the call was originally cleared at 4:04 a.m.
As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, the next entry on the log shows the call being changed from a disturbance to a burglary at 5:18 a.m. Then, the call is reactivated, and the same two police units go back to the scene at 7:14 a.m.
The fire department was called at 7:16 a.m. The next entry shows that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation was requested to the scene at 8:34 a.m.
The search warrant News Center 7 obtained from Greene County courts did not say when officers looked into the condo.
News Center 7’s Mike Campbell went back to Sugarcreek Township Police on Thursday looking for answers. He was told Chief Mike Brown was not available to speak with him.
As previously reported, an investigation revealed Gustitus was killed by Jacob Prichard early Saturday morning.
Prichard also killed his wife, Jaymee, sometime either late Friday night or early Saturday morning.
Prichard drove his car, with Jaymee’s body in the trunk, to the municipal building parking lot in West Milton early Saturday morning. He got out of the car, opened the trunk, and then shot himself.
The couple and Gustitus were acquaintances through their employment at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The case remains under investigation.
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