A Michigan woman tried to file a protective order not once, but twice, against her ex-husband “for help before this goes too far, and things are too late.” One month after her second application was finally granted, her ex-husband is accused of doing the unthinkable.
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Latricia Green first attempted to get a protective order via Wayne County Circuit Court against her ex-husband, 53-year-old Mario Green, on June 13. She claimed Mario “continued to call my job and threaten to meet employees outside” and “showed up to my job and tried to enter my office without my approval to get to me” before he broke “into my car and cut up my clothes, shoes,” local Detroit station WXYZ reported. Her request was denied by a Wayne County Circuit Court judge. So, she re-filed on July 20.
Green, 40, claimed in the follow-up filing her ex-husband’s behavior escalated, accusing him of “stealing belongings from me” and following her on “multiple occasions [and] has tried to break my car window.”
“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,” Green said in her July application. “I have to constantly look over my shoulder to make sure this man is not following me to hurt me like he has done in the past with physical abuse,” she added.
That second protective order was granted on July 21, but it was not served to Mario, Detroit Police Department Assistant Chief Charles Fitzgerald told WXYZ. According to the outlet, protective orders can be served by a process server, court officer, a third party or by certified mail. Nearly one month to the day after her order was approved, Mario allegedly walked into his ex-wife’s job at Henry Ford Hospital armed with a gun and shot her multiple times after a “verbal altercation.” She died. The shooting occurred in the basement of the hospital, which, according to reports, does not require security badge access. The Wayne County Medical Examiner determined Green’s cause of death was a close-range gunshot wound.
The police chief says Mario fled the scene in a 2011 white Dodge Charger, which was later found abandoned. After a manhunt, Mario was taken into custody by DPD. He was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated stalking, and several other charges. A second Detroit man, 54-year-old Anthony Lee-Lamont Barnett, was also arrested in connection with Green’s death. He was charged with being an Accessory After the Fact and Lying to a Police Officer.
“Most people have had failed relationships of one kind or another,” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said. “The result has never been violence, but unfortunately deadly violence is the remedy for some individuals.”
According to the Michigan Department of Corrections, Mario, who remains behind bars, had prior aggravated stalking convictions from 2001. He also spent almost six years in prison for arson before his 2012 release.
Mario is due in court on Sept. 5 for a probable cause conference.
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