Husband shot wife to death inside home after picking up daughter from…

A Florida woman who was trying to leave her husband is dead after police say he refused to sign divorce papers — and then shot her in their home.

Lamar Bryant, 41, is accused of first-degree premeditated murder in the death of his wife Takeshia Bryant, 42, who died Tuesday after her husband allegedly shot her to death in their home in Orlando. According to local NBC affiliate WESH, the victim’s family has asked that she be referred to by her maiden name, Takeshia Eads.

A probable cause affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime says that Eads “recently filed for divorce from Lamar Bryant however, he refused to sign the divorce paperwork.”

According to the affidavit, the violence unfolded shortly after 3:30 p.m. on March 25, after Bryant picked up the couple’s daughter from school — and appeared to be under the influence.

“Lamar Bryant was displaying signs of intoxication to include slurring his words and being disrespectful” when he arrived at the school to pick up his daughter, the affidavit says. With his daughter and another witness — a girl said to be dating Bryant’s son — in the car, Bryant allegedly drove from the school to a liquor store and bought a “glass bottle of alcohol.” He then allegedly “drank from the bottle as he drove” to a storage unit, which his daughter said Bryant used “to store narcotics and firearms.”

“Lamar Bryant left the vehicle by himself and went to the storage unit out of view,” the affidavit says. “Lamar Bryant returned to the vehicle with his hands in the front pockets of his sweatsuit. Upon entering the vehicle, Lamar Bryant removed two firearms from his pockets and placed them on the center console.”

The daughter reportedly had “a clear view of the firearms” and identified them as “two black ‘Glocks,’ and one with a laser.”

Bryant then drove to their home on West Livingston Street, where Bryant was sitting on the porch with another one of her daughters.

“Upon arrival, Takeshia Bryant approached the vehicle on the driver side and made contact with Lamar Bryant,” the affidavit says. At that point the two passengers got out of the car, and Bryant allegedly put the two firearms into his daughter’s purse “and told her to hide them behind the house.” Bryant was apparently nervous because there was “a suspected police helicopter flying above the residence.”