Weddings are typically happy occasions, but one in Illinois turned deadly when a man fatally shot his daughter-in-law because he was upset she was about to divorce his son, according to police.
Officers from the Village of Schaumburg, a Chicago suburb, responded to the Marriott on North Martingale Road at 10:15 p.m. Friday and discovered a gunshot victim in the parking lot, according to a press release.
Police said she had a bullet wound to the head. Paramedics transported her to the hospital, where she died.
Cops discovered that a citizen had apprehended the alleged shooter, 76-year-old Roland Schmidt; they also seized the gun.
Schmidt and his daughter-in-law, 45-year-old Christine Moyer of Ohio, attended a wedding at the hotel, according to detectives.
As Moyer was leaving the event, police say Schmidt followed her outside and shot her in the head.
“Through the investigation, it was discovered Schmidt was upset with Moyer over divorce paperwork which was filed against his son,” the police allege.
Schmidt, of Stillman Valley, about 13 miles southwest of Rockford, is now facing first-degree murder charges, according to police. Police took him to the Cook County Jail. He’s scheduled to appear before a judge on Monday.
Flory Sommers had just walked into the hotel with her friends when the shooting happened.
“I was inside by the ATM and I heard some people calling ‘gunshot!’ and then the manager said ‘was there a gunshot,’ and he said he was calling the ambulance, and then I just saw people move quickly to the elevator to the lobby,” Sommers told WFLD, the local Fox station.
