Two suspects charged in the murder of an elementary school teacher impulsively asked cops to end their lives, saying, “Just shoot me, I deserve this,” court documents show.
Neither Stephen Brown, 23, nor Kailey Dandurand, 20, spoke during their appearance in court Monday, but the pair “spontaneously uttered” the comments to police following their arrest Thursday after Telma Boinville, 51, was found beaten to death in a Hawaii vacation home she had been cleaning.
“Just shoot me, I deserve this,” Brown said, according to court documents obtained by KHON-TV.
“Can you just pull your gun out and shoot me in the head?” Dandurand asked, documents show. “My life is over after today.”
The macabre requests were revealed Monday as the pair appeared in court on charges of second-degree murder, burglary and kidnapping. Police found Boinville’s 8-year-old daughter unharmed and tied up in another room of the vacation property on Oahu’s North Shore. Boinville, a teacher at Sunset Beach Elementary School who moved to Hawaii from Brazil in the 1990s, was also found bound and lying in a pool of blood with a bloody hammer, knife and mallet nearby, according to court documents.
Boinville’s husband, Kevin Emery, said his daughter identified Brown and Dandurand from a photo on social media and told him she was waiting outside the home in the family’s truck when a man with green hair and a woman — both covered in blood — emerged from the residence and grabbed her, took her inside and tied her up, court documents show.
Brown and Dandurand appeared in court amid heavy security, KHON-TV reports. A judge set Brown’s bail at $1 million and ordered Dandurand held on $500,000 bail, according to the station. Dandurand also facing an additional charge of unauthorized possession of personal information after officers found Boinville’s bank card in her shirt pocket, court documents show.
Boinville supplemented her income by helping her friend clean houses, her husband said in a statement obtained by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
“This put her in the wrong place at the wrong time,” the statement read.
Kik Emery, Boinville’s mother-in-law, told the newspaper that her daughter-in-law loved to cook, especially Brazilian fare, and catered to her daughter, throwing the girl extravagant birthday parties.
“Telma had a special love for every single person here,” Emery said during a candlelight vigil. “She just had a pure heart of kindness and pure aloha. My son absolutely loved her. They had a special bond … I hope and pray they caught the right people.”