Devastating Answers to What Happened in Case, Involving Former Michigan Cop Wanted for Killing Wife
A former Michigan police lieutenant was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police claim he killed himself just after murdering his wife in front of their children.
Ray Felix, 60, left the Battle Creek Police Department in 2014 and his 45-year-old wife, Jamie, left the department in 2015. The couple relocated to Florida with their two children and Mrs. Felix took up a job at Manatee K-8 School, according to MLive.com.
However, the evening of March 29, Port St. Lucie Police Department police officers say they received a call from Mrs. Felix’s coworkers saying they received a weird email from her, sparking concern because of her pending divorce with her husband.
Police say two hours prior to receiving that call, the woman and her two boys were at a business on the 9000 block of S. U.S. 1 in Port St. Lucie when Ray approached them in a disguise and armed with a gun, forcing them into a rental car where he confronted his wife about their divorce. He also allegedly forced Jamie to send the suspicious email to her coworkers and proceeded to abduct her.
Read what happened next from WPBF News:
At some point, the rental car returned to the area of S US-1, when 60-year-old Ray Felix forced one of the kids to drive the rental car while Ray Felix also forced Jamie Felix to drive her vehicle. The two vehicles then drove in tandem all the way to the Quality Inn near Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach.
“The victim, Jamie, got out of the car and that’s when the suspect got out of the car as well and shot her multiple times in the parking lot,” said West Palm Beach Police Department public information officer Mike Jachles.
Jachles said the deadly shooting happened in front of the two children.
Investigators said Felix then drove the rental to the rental car store a mile away and left the boys at the motel. Jachles said Felix dropped off the car and exited the property when he was confronted by officers. He then shot himself in the head. Felix was pronounced dead at St. Mary’s Medical Center.
The two boys weren’t harmed during this incident. However, they must live the rest of their lives remembering this traumatizing incident.
“Now you have a family that is going to be scarred and children who this is going to affect the rest of their lives,” said Jachles via WPBF.
