The family of a Michigan woman who was shot to death at the Detroit hospital she worked at —  allegedly by her ex-husband — said she was “crying out for help” in the weeks before the fatal shooting. 

The Detroit Police Department said that 40-year-old Latricia Green was working in the basement of Henry Ford Hospital Friday morning just before 10 a.m. when her ex-husband Mario Green, 53, walked into the facility, according to local station WXYZ.

Police said an argument broke out between the pair and that Mario allegedly pulled out a gun and shot his ex-wife multiple times, then walked out of the hospital and fled in a white Dodge Charger. 

The car was later found abandoned at around 2 p.m. in a Detroit neighborhood, but Mario was nowhere to be found.

A rep for the Detroit Police Department, told . “We have the best police department across the country and I would like to thank our law enforcement partners who assisted us in apprehending Mario Green, along with the community who gave us numerous tips about the suspect.”

Latricia Green sounded the alarm about her ex multiple times

The Greens divorced in 2018, but court records show that tension had escalated between the former couple in the months leading up to the deadly shooting. Latricia had tried to take out a personal protection order against Mario two separate times, reporting that he had begun stalking her and showing up at her workplace unannounced. 

In her first application in June, which was ultimately denied by a judge, Latricia wrote that her ex “continued to call my job and threaten to meet employees outside” and had also “showed up to my job and tried to enter my office without my approval to get to me,” according to court records obtained by WXYZ. 

Latricia tried to secure a personal protection order against Mario again the next month. 

“Since I was denied, he has now been able to break into my car and cut up my clothes, shoes and steal belongings from me and he followed me (on) multiple occasions (and) has tried to break my car window,” she wrote in the July 20 application.

She went on to describe an incident in which Mario allegedly followed her into the city and tried to “turn his car into mine” to block her way. 

“I have tried being cordial because I feel that the system has now let me down each time that I have tried to make reports on this man,” Latricia wrote. “My father was murdered and now with this situation I am now in mental distress and scared not knowing what to do.”

Latricia added that she was “asking for help before this goes too far, and things are too late.” 

This time, a judge granted the protection order on July 21, 2025, but it was never served.

“Unfortunately, (the PPO) was not served on her ex-husband,” Detroit Police Department Assistant Chief Charles Fitzgerald confirmed to WXYZ. “So it almost brings us here today.

“A woman crying out for help”

In the wake of her death, Latricia’s cousin Rodney Hickman voiced frustration with the legal system. 

“We’re not sitting here gonna point the finger, but at the same time, she was a woman crying out for help,” he told WXYZ. 

Another cousin, Deantjuan Jones, told the station the family is now struggling to come to terms with their loss.

“She was such a sweet person. She didn’t deserve what happened to her at all,” Jones said.

Latricia’s coworker Devin Wilford described her to the news outlet as “magnificent.” 

“She was more than a friend,” he said. “She was a mother, she was a wife, she did her job.”

The hospital released a statement expressing their sympathies for those impacted by Latricia’s death.

“At Henry Ford Health, we are family,” the statement reads. “We are devastated by the loss of our Henry Ford Hospital teammate and our hearts go out to our loved ones — her family, friends and the people she worked with every day. Police have confirmed this was a targeted act of domestic violence.”

Mario had previously been convicted of aggravated stalking in 2001 and served six years in prison for arson, according to records from the Michigan Department of Corrections. He was released in 2012.