A distraught girl calls police telling them her mother is lying on the floor bleeding and is not breathing. Minutes later, a call is received from Evans Drug about a man who shot himself in the head while in the store.

Those accounts from 911 tapes released Monday by Enid Police Department recount the dramatic moments following a murder-suicide Friday in Enid when Donald Lovely stabbed his wife, Sherry, multiple times, then committed suicide.

The 17-year-old daughter of Sherry Lovely called 911 at 2:41 p.m. Friday to report her mother lying on the floor of her home on North Washington.

“There’s a lot of blood and she’s not breathing, I need an ambulance and everything,” the girl is heard saying.

Because of a garbled connection, the 911 dispatcher had trouble determining the exact address in the 5200 block of north Washington. At one point, the girl is heard pleading, “The little kids will be home soon and they don’t need to see this.”

The girl told the dispatcher she works a full-time job and was asleep and awoke to hear her parents arguing. When she went in to check, her father was on top of her mother beating her. She tells the dispatcher, “I’ve got blood all over me.”

The girl also said it could have been a stabbing because there was a puddle of blood on the floor and she did not know where it was coming from.

After killing his wife, according to police reports, Donald Lovely went to Evans Drug, 1108 W. Willow — about four miles away — and he went to the sporting goods section. He asked to see a shotgun, and the clerk handed him a new unloaded shotgun. Lovely handed the shotgun back, saying he wanted to purchase it, according to police. After completing the paperwork, he told the clerk he needed ammunition for the gun and she pointed to a box of shotgun shells displayed at the end of the counter. Lovely retrieved a box and asked to look at the gun again. When the clerk handed it to him, he loaded the gun and shot himself in the head, according to police. Several other customers and employees were inside the store at the time of the shooting, but no one else was injured, according to police.

Lovely was taken to St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center where he later died.

Two 911 calls — the first at 2:59 p.m. — were made to police from Evans, reporting a man had shot himself in the store. Both calls were transferred to ambulance dispatch.

EPD Capt. Dean Grassino said Sherry Lovely was dead at the scene when emergency responders arrived, and the cause of death was multiple stab wounds. She was lying in the dining room of the home.

“While detectives were investigating this crime scene, they gained information that the suspect in this homicide, Donald Lovely, may have been in possession of explosives, which were reported to be stored in a large safe inside the home,” Grassino said.

The area was cleared, and Oklahoma Highway Patrol bomb squad conducted a search and found no explosives at the house.

Online court records show Sherry Lovely had filed a protective order against her husband in December but dismissed it three weeks ago.

She also had filed for divorce from her husband of four years Dec. 3, 2008, citing incompatibility. She asked the court for custody of the couple’s son and supervised visitation with his father. A protection order filed in district court Dec. 4 lists three children in Lovely’s custody, ages 4, 8 and 17.

The protective order, which was dismissed Jan. 15, according to court records, stipulates Donald Gene Lovely was to have no contact with Sherry Lovely, “either in person or by telephone, at any time or place.”

In a court document filed by his attorney, John Hodgden, Donald Lovely disputed the custody and visitation requests by Sherry Lovely and asked the court to award him custody and to allow standard visitation to their mother.

Sherry Lovely’s attorney, Justin Lamunyon, asked the court to collect a hair follicle to be tested for drugs, according to court documents. Donald Lovely was convicted of marijuana possession in 1991. Sherry Lovely also requested receipts and documentation from H&H; Gun Range in Oklahoma City and from Bill’s Outdoor Sports in Enid for any items — including firearms — purchased at the stores.



Staff writer Tippi Rasp contributed to this story.