A local Orlando realtor, accused of shooting her boyfriend to death yesterday morning, was denied bail by a judge on Thursday.
46-year-old Caryn Kelley is believed to have shot and killed her boyfriend, Phillip Peatross, 46, after the two argued in her College Park home just before 5:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Orlando Police say.
According to the Arrest Affidavit, Kelley made several different and contradictory statements to investigators, some of which were spontaneous.
When she first called 911, Kelley stated her boyfriend was dying from a gunshot wound and when the dispatcher asked if she had the gun, she stated, “It was a self defense thing…I did.. but it was an accident.”
Kelley also advised the 911 dispatcher, “her boyfriend had put the gun to his own head and stated, ‘Just let me do it,” according to the report. She stated, “He was joking,” and she told him “don’t do it, it’s stupid.”
Read Caryn Kelley Arrest Affidavit Report Here.
According to the Arrest Affidavit, Kelley ran out screaming from the house when officers arrived saying, “He’s shot, and not breathing.” Investigators said, Kelley had blood on both hands and appeared intoxicated.
Another officer while at Kelley’s house overheard her saying, “she and her boyfriend were arguing, she was holding her gun above her head when her boyfriend asked, ‘What are you going to do, shoot me?'” She advised that she told him, ‘no’ and her boyfriend grabbed the gun and held it to his own head, whereupon a struggle ensued and the gun went off.
Kelley also told detectives, she and Peatross argued prior to the shooting during which she told him not to leave because he was drunk and it was stupid to drink and drive. Kelley said, as Peatross left the house, she told him not to come back unannounced because she had a firearm and would use it.
Listen to Caryn Kelley 911 Call with Dispatcher below:
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When interviewed later at the Criminal Investigators Division around 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, Kelley made spontaneous statements during the reading of her Miranda rights, according to the report.
“It was dark when someone came into the home. I heard the ‘beep beep’ and we fought over the gun… he pointed it somewhere…and I didn’t want to shoot him and he didn’t want to shoot himself… and it just went off. I can’t believe I did…that happened.”
Kelley also added, before invoking her right to counsel, “He came at me in the dark and I didn’t know who it was.”
Kelley is being held in the Orange County Jail without bond. She has been charged with first degree murder.
