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Early in the morning on July 12, 2016, emergency personnel raced to a home in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Kimberly Reps had frantically called 911 to report that she’d been shot, and that she and her husband, Robert “Rob” Reps, 54, had just been attacked by an unidentified man.
“I wasn’t very far from the address, so I waited for another deputy,” Union County Sheriff’s Deputy Kaitlin Robillard told Snapped, as heard in a preview of a new episode airing Sunday, August 24, at 6/5c p.m. on Oxygen.
She was soon joined by Union County Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Wilds.
“As they [authorities] approached the back door of the residence, it was ajar,” said Union County Assistant District Attorney Mary Beth Usher. “However, there were no signs of forced entry. And they made their way into the home.”
Inside the residence, sheriff’s deputies found Kimberly on the floor, bleeding, with a gunshot to her left shoulder. She was moaning for help.
When first responders asked Kimberly who shot her, she said she didn’t know because it was dark, and that she was in pain. Kimberly also said that she didn’t know where her husband was.
What happened to Rob Reps?
Deputies made their way upstairs, where they observed blood on steps and on a wall. In the master bedroom, they found Rob Reps in bed with a gunshot to his head. He was laying on the bed, with his head on the pillow.
“It was a lot of blood, brain matter, skull pieces on the headboard of the bed,” said Wilds.
Rob was still alive but struggling to hang on. “He was agonal breathing, which means that it was ineffective in delivering the appropriate amount of oxygen to his body to survive,” said Usher.
Kim was taken to a hospital, while Rob was taken to a helipad in order to be flown to Charlotte for medical care. “But when he got to the helipad, he was pronounced dead,” said Brian Huncke, former Union County Sheriff’s Captain.
Was this a botched home invasion that ended with a woman wounded and her husband dead? Or was it something else? That’s what investigators were tasked with figuring out.
“You don’t know who these people are. You don’t know their history,” said Robillard. “You don’t know if they were targeted, or if it was random.”
Find out more about the shocking identity of the shooter and the motive on Snapped, airing August 24 at 6/5c p.m. on Oxygen.
