Woman kills husband at Broward home — citing years of infidelity and deceit, police say
IN HER RAGE, THE ARREST REPORT READ, SHE GRABBED A GUN AND SHOT HIM MULTIPLE TIMES.
Years of infidelity and lies led a woman to kill her husband at their Broward home during the Labor Day weekend, officers said.
Denise Nicole Malcolm, 45, had known for the past two years her husband had been unfaithful, she told Coral Springs police detectives after her arrest on Sunday, Sept. 1. It led to a breakdown of their marriage, heated “altercations” and sleeping in different rooms.
“She did not trust him and was at her wits end with his lies and deceit,” an arrest report revealed. According to police: On the night of Saturday, Aug. 31, her husband said he was leaving to go to Port Saint Lucie with his friends. Malcolm believed he was lying and was going to see someone else — a nearly hourlong argument erupted.
In her rage, the report read, she grabbed a gun and shot him multiple times. She couldn’t remember how many rounds she let off.
Two young boys in the home, believed to be their sons, came to see what happened. One was eating Chinese food in his room across the hall listening to music; meanwhile, the other was sitting in the living room.
Coming to investigate at different times, one saw Malcolm with a gun in her hand and spotted the husband bleeding from his shoulder. The other boy heard the man scream and noticed blood spattered on the wall.
She told them to leave and closed the door. One of the boys rushed downstairs to call 911.
Malcolm said she contemplated killing herself after her husband died form his wounds. But she told detectives that something he said in his final moments made her stop thinking about suicide and shoot him a final time.
Coral Springs police were already outside the home when they heard the final shot.
Malcolm was charged with first-degree murder and was still in a Broward jail as of Tuesday afternoon.